English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 610 páginas |
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... perfect , learned , com- pletely Master and Doctor in his art . Thus the reader will observe that Chaucer makes every one of his characters perfect in his kind ; every one is an Antique Statue , the image of a class and not of an ...
... perfect , learned , com- pletely Master and Doctor in his art . Thus the reader will observe that Chaucer makes every one of his characters perfect in his kind ; every one is an Antique Statue , the image of a class and not of an ...
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... the play , till it is become to me a perfect dead member . 1 It may seem a paradox , but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage , than those of 98 LAMB.
... the play , till it is become to me a perfect dead member . 1 It may seem a paradox , but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage , than those of 98 LAMB.
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... perfect solecisms in letter - writing , do we put up with in Clarissa and other books , for the sake of the delight which that form upon the whole gives us . But the practice of stage representation reduces everything to a controversy ...
... perfect solecisms in letter - writing , do we put up with in Clarissa and other books , for the sake of the delight which that form upon the whole gives us . But the practice of stage representation reduces everything to a controversy ...
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... perfect triumph of virtue over accidents , of the imagination over the senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ruling faculty , but we are left to our poor unassisted ...
... perfect triumph of virtue over accidents , of the imagination over the senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ruling faculty , but we are left to our poor unassisted ...
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... perfect expression of the faculty itself . It is necessary , however , to make the circle still narrower , and to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language ; for the popular division into prose and verse is ...
... perfect expression of the faculty itself . It is necessary , however , to make the circle still narrower , and to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language ; for the popular division into prose and verse is ...
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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.