Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 pages |
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... passionate reference to actual feelings and images . It is this rare union that gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character . " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me ...
... passionate reference to actual feelings and images . It is this rare union that gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character . " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me ...
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... passion and an appetite . A person would almost feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and coun- trymen : there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the utterance ...
... passion and an appetite . A person would almost feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and coun- trymen : there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the utterance ...
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... passion has been touched , or how * There are some splendid exceptions to this censure . His comparison between Ovid and Virgil , and his character of Shakespear , are master - pieces of their kind . skilfully , what tone and movement ...
... passion has been touched , or how * There are some splendid exceptions to this censure . His comparison between Ovid and Virgil , and his character of Shakespear , are master - pieces of their kind . skilfully , what tone and movement ...
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... passion ; and as nothing but an act of voluntary power still seems necessary to get rid of every impediment , we indulge our violence more and more , and heighten our im- patience by degrees into a sort of frenzy . The object is the ...
... passion ; and as nothing but an act of voluntary power still seems necessary to get rid of every impediment , we indulge our violence more and more , and heighten our im- patience by degrees into a sort of frenzy . The object is the ...
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... Passion plays the tyrant , in a grand tragic - comic style , over the Lilliputian difficulties and petty disappointments it has to encounter , gives way to all the fretfulness of grief and all the turbulence of resentment , makes a fuss ...
... Passion plays the tyrant , in a grand tragic - comic style , over the Lilliputian difficulties and petty disappointments it has to encounter , gives way to all the fretfulness of grief and all the turbulence of resentment , makes a fuss ...
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Page 224 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 27 - God's trophies, and His work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath: yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories No less renowned than War: new foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Page 30 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 62 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Page 319 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 21 - Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the...
Page 26 - Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud, Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd, And on the neck of crowned fortune proud Hast rear'd God's trophies and his work pursued, While Darwen stream with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureat wreath.
Page 27 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 27 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 29 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.