Suggestions: Literary EssaysThe University Press, 1923 - 212 páginas |
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... possible member of their band but whom they had rejected . To the hearer or reader of Julius Caesar , apart from other knowledge , he is nothing . Why then is his murder dwelt upon almost as emphatically as the suicide of Portia ? The ...
... possible member of their band but whom they had rejected . To the hearer or reader of Julius Caesar , apart from other knowledge , he is nothing . Why then is his murder dwelt upon almost as emphatically as the suicide of Portia ? The ...
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... possible for anyone to read these two passages impartially without seeing that they imply a far clearer knowledge of Claribel's history than the play itself exhibits . For the symmetry of the plot they are either too strongly emphasised ...
... possible for anyone to read these two passages impartially without seeing that they imply a far clearer knowledge of Claribel's history than the play itself exhibits . For the symmetry of the plot they are either too strongly emphasised ...
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... possible . Yet to the Elizabethan mind it seems to have come with the force of a new revelation as to the capa- cities of language , or like the discovery of Columbus on the Western World . Men could not get over their ever - new ...
... possible . Yet to the Elizabethan mind it seems to have come with the force of a new revelation as to the capa- cities of language , or like the discovery of Columbus on the Western World . Men could not get over their ever - new ...
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... possible to know which of them was uppermost in Shakspere's mind . To a man like Johnson , in whose view a pun was as bad as picking a pocket , all this was intensely repugnant ; and the power of the quibble over Shakspere seemed like ...
... possible to know which of them was uppermost in Shakspere's mind . To a man like Johnson , in whose view a pun was as bad as picking a pocket , all this was intensely repugnant ; and the power of the quibble over Shakspere seemed like ...
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... possible meanings of a word his mental eye first fell . The effect is that of a ' zeugma " in which the two ideas are practically co- existent . Take , as a typical instance , the lines that close the 69th Sonnet : Then ( churls ) their ...
... possible meanings of a word his mental eye first fell . The effect is that of a ' zeugma " in which the two ideas are practically co- existent . Take , as a typical instance , the lines that close the 69th Sonnet : Then ( churls ) their ...
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Página 62 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Página 140 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Página 99 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Página 198 - ... are proper to the legislative style. The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions ; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul, by...
Página 144 - And many more, whose names on earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die So long as fire outlives the parent spark, Rose, robed in dazzling immortality. "Thou art become as one of us...
Página 124 - ... and the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew of music so delicate, soft, and intense, it was felt like an odour within the sense...
Página 3 - But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed ? We...
Página 210 - Unfastens : on a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 73 - The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom. I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Caesar: and this pine is bark'd, That overtopp'd them all.
Página 63 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.