The Unique: Or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine PortraitsGeorge Smeeton Charles H. Peabody, 1830 - 254 páginas |
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... assistance of many friends , he published a volume of his poems at Kilmarnoch ; the num- ber printed was 600 copies , of which about 350 were subscribed for . Fired by the praises of Dr Blacklock , the elegant McKenzie , author of the ...
... assistance of many friends , he published a volume of his poems at Kilmarnoch ; the num- ber printed was 600 copies , of which about 350 were subscribed for . Fired by the praises of Dr Blacklock , the elegant McKenzie , author of the ...
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... assistance of friends , was enabled to con- duct it in such a manner as attracted much attention . In 1730 , he married a Miss Read . In 1731 , he carried into effect the plan of form- ing a library , which afterwards became the ...
... assistance of friends , was enabled to con- duct it in such a manner as attracted much attention . In 1730 , he married a Miss Read . In 1731 , he carried into effect the plan of form- ing a library , which afterwards became the ...
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... assistance was procured for him . His limbs were supported by irons , and by the time he attained his fifth year he began to outgrow his bodily defects . He continued at the theatre till he was seven years old , when a ludicrous ...
... assistance was procured for him . His limbs were supported by irons , and by the time he attained his fifth year he began to outgrow his bodily defects . He continued at the theatre till he was seven years old , when a ludicrous ...
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... assistance from the powers on the continent , in our arduous struggle for indepen- dence . By his superior address he procured from the Dutch the necessary sums for carry- ing on the war , as well as concluded a treaty of commerce with ...
... assistance from the powers on the continent , in our arduous struggle for indepen- dence . By his superior address he procured from the Dutch the necessary sums for carry- ing on the war , as well as concluded a treaty of commerce with ...
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... coronation of the young king ; which ceremony took place at Stirling , July 29 , 1567. Mary had not long remained in prison , when , by the assistance of George Douglas , a brother of the keeper , she made 216 MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS .
... coronation of the young king ; which ceremony took place at Stirling , July 29 , 1567. Mary had not long remained in prison , when , by the assistance of George Douglas , a brother of the keeper , she made 216 MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS .
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Página 78 - Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toiled after him in vain.
Página 20 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Página 80 - But love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, «nd exhibited only what he saw before him.
Página 81 - This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language ; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 79 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 57 - In short, she altogether, unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below ! How she caught the contagion I cannot tell.
Página 80 - Shakespeare has no heroes, his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion : Even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with liie.
Página 80 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf...
Página 253 - ... she would accuse none, nor say any thing of the ground upon which she was judged. She prayed heartily for the king...
Página 79 - It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence...