Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
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... seems to have been content to believe him rather than enter on the arduous task of contradicting him . Still the belief was rather a cold one . The learned critics admitted his plays to be miracles of art ; but , with two or three ...
... seems to have been content to believe him rather than enter on the arduous task of contradicting him . Still the belief was rather a cold one . The learned critics admitted his plays to be miracles of art ; but , with two or three ...
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... seem to have parted , indeed , with mutual profes- sions of friendship ; and some letters passed between them , full of somewhat overdue protestations on Jonson's side , but cold and guarded enough on Drum- mond's ; and their intimacy seems ...
... seem to have parted , indeed , with mutual profes- sions of friendship ; and some letters passed between them , full of somewhat overdue protestations on Jonson's side , but cold and guarded enough on Drum- mond's ; and their intimacy seems ...
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... seem to have been long - lived . He was reconciled to both Dekker and Mars- ton , his greatest literary foes ; and ... seems to have fresh winds and sparkling light play spent some of the last years of his life in through their foliage ...
... seem to have been long - lived . He was reconciled to both Dekker and Mars- ton , his greatest literary foes ; and ... seems to have fresh winds and sparkling light play spent some of the last years of his life in through their foliage ...
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... seems broad and comprehensive ; but it It is a faculty that no study can give , is one of those minds with rigid palpable though it may of course strengthen it ; it boundaries , within which you are always is to the poet what an eye for ...
... seems broad and comprehensive ; but it It is a faculty that no study can give , is one of those minds with rigid palpable though it may of course strengthen it ; it boundaries , within which you are always is to the poet what an eye for ...
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... seems constantly at hand is staved off , make the staple of the play ; which ends in the general confusion and rout of all concerned , and the return of the surprised owner to his desecrated house . Jonson is himself in his descriptions ...
... seems constantly at hand is staved off , make the staple of the play ; which ends in the general confusion and rout of all concerned , and the return of the surprised owner to his desecrated house . Jonson is himself in his descriptions ...
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Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 410 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 411 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 410 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 410 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 8 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 239 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 123 - The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth.
Page 8 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 470 - ... a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well.