Suggestions: Literary EssaysThe University Press, 1923 - 212 páginas |
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... things were more obvious than to us ; and he set about to conquer his difficulties in his usual commonsense and business- like manner . It was his aim to make things easy for his patrons ; and he knew well that while audiences will put ...
... things were more obvious than to us ; and he set about to conquer his difficulties in his usual commonsense and business- like manner . It was his aim to make things easy for his patrons ; and he knew well that while audiences will put ...
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... things to do , though of a like kind , in the same play , and it was not his cue to dwell upon the insignificant at the cost of the important . Yet we are ready , after Jessica , to expect a great advance , in Portia , on the crudities ...
... things to do , though of a like kind , in the same play , and it was not his cue to dwell upon the insignificant at the cost of the important . Yet we are ready , after Jessica , to expect a great advance , in Portia , on the crudities ...
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... things does she actually do afterwards ; she wears no dagger , she practises no raw trick . Why , then , are these boasts put into her mouth - except in order that , by their very exaggeration , we may be cautioned against being taken ...
... things does she actually do afterwards ; she wears no dagger , she practises no raw trick . Why , then , are these boasts put into her mouth - except in order that , by their very exaggeration , we may be cautioned against being taken ...
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... thing . This idea has probably existed from the beginning of the world : it appears as Nemesis in Greece , and dominates the conception of Kismet or of Fortune elsewhere . If Polycrates is exceedingly lucky now , he will pay for it ...
... thing . This idea has probably existed from the beginning of the world : it appears as Nemesis in Greece , and dominates the conception of Kismet or of Fortune elsewhere . If Polycrates is exceedingly lucky now , he will pay for it ...
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... things in the next world . But besides that , a clinging misfortune , a thorn in the flesh , a nagging wife , might be looked upon as a guarantee of blessing in the future . So familiar were these ideas that they passed from homilies ...
... things in the next world . But besides that , a clinging misfortune , a thorn in the flesh , a nagging wife , might be looked upon as a guarantee of blessing in the future . So familiar were these ideas that they passed from homilies ...
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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.