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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... spirit and jovial temperament . His countenance , harsh and rugged " rocky , " as he himself calls it was the index of an intellect which , though not remarkable for depth either of insight or thought , was strong , aggressive , and ...
... spirit and jovial temperament . His countenance , harsh and rugged " rocky , " as he himself calls it was the index of an intellect which , though not remarkable for depth either of insight or thought , was strong , aggressive , and ...
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... spirit , which grew stronger as he grew older , and was strengthened probably by the remem- brance of old successes , and the secret conviction that his powers were impaired . It is in his later plays more especially that he uses his ...
... spirit , which grew stronger as he grew older , and was strengthened probably by the remem- brance of old successes , and the secret conviction that his powers were impaired . It is in his later plays more especially that he uses his ...
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... spirit and flesh . But Ben Jonson always wrote on the assumption that you could . It would be too much to say he never struck out at one flash a line Its highest characteristic is its great constructive power . His best plots are ...
... spirit and flesh . But Ben Jonson always wrote on the assumption that you could . It would be too much to say he never struck out at one flash a line Its highest characteristic is its great constructive power . His best plots are ...
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... spirit to secure him luck at play ; Drugger , a tobacco - man , wants charms to secure him custom ; Sir Epicure Mammon , a nobler victim , is deluded into the conviction that he is on the point of grasping the philoso- pher's stone ...
... spirit to secure him luck at play ; Drugger , a tobacco - man , wants charms to secure him custom ; Sir Epicure Mammon , a nobler victim , is deluded into the conviction that he is on the point of grasping the philoso- pher's stone ...
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... spirit - rapping now are among ourselves . The whole thing is conducted with wonderful spirit , and must be still better on the stage than in the closet . The variety of comic situation ; the mock- solemnity of Subtle ; Face's ...
... spirit - rapping now are among ourselves . The whole thing is conducted with wonderful spirit , and must be still better on the stage than in the closet . The variety of comic situation ; the mock- solemnity of Subtle ; Face's ...
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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.