English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 610 páginas |
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... excellence . Of the five lines thus honourably distinguished , two of them differ from prose , even more widely than the lines which either precede or follow , in the position of the words . A different object do these eyes require ; My ...
... excellence . Of the five lines thus honourably distinguished , two of them differ from prose , even more widely than the lines which either precede or follow , in the position of the words . A different object do these eyes require ; My ...
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... excellence is a reason that they should be so . There is so much in them , which comes not under the province of acting , with which eye , and tone , and gesture , have nothing to do . The glory of the scenic art is to personate passion ...
... excellence is a reason that they should be so . There is so much in them , which comes not under the province of acting , with which eye , and tone , and gesture , have nothing to do . The glory of the scenic art is to personate passion ...
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... excellence is vulgarly supposed to consist . When we read the incantations of those terrible beings the Witches in Macbeth , though some of the ingredients of their hellish com- position savour of the grotesque , yet is the effect upon ...
... excellence is vulgarly supposed to consist . When we read the incantations of those terrible beings the Witches in Macbeth , though some of the ingredients of their hellish com- position savour of the grotesque , yet is the effect upon ...
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... excellence of poetry : for it acts in a divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above consciousness ; and it is reserved for future generations to contemplate and measure the mighty cause and effect in all the strength and ...
... excellence of poetry : for it acts in a divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above consciousness ; and it is reserved for future generations to contemplate and measure the mighty cause and effect in all the strength and ...
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... excellence ; and that the corruption or the extinction of the drama in a nation where it has once flourished , is a mark of a corruption of manners , and an extinction of the energies which sustain the soul of social life . But , as ...
... excellence ; and that the corruption or the extinction of the drama in a nation where it has once flourished , is a mark of a corruption of manners , and an extinction of the energies which sustain the soul of social life . But , as ...
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Página 332 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 337 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 122 - Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Página 65 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 332 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Página 130 - Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in ^the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. A poet therefore would do ill to embody his own conceptions of right and wrong, which are usually those of his place and time, in his poetical creations, which participate in neither.
Página 110 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Página 487 - To their fathers and mothers having risen Out of some subterraneous prison Into which they were trepanned Long time ago in a mighty band Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, But how or why, they don't understand.
Página 47 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 130 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which 30 exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.