Leigh Hunts Kritik der Entwicklung der englischen Literatur bis zum Ende des 18. JahrhundertsDruckerei der Strassburger neuesten nachrichten a.-g., 1916 - 180 páginas |
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Página 74 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Página 89 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página 102 - One reason has been given why "^Esop" did not succeed. Another we take to be that the French, in their old levity, used to think themselves bound to sit out any gravity that appealed to their good sense ; while the English never pretended to be able to dispense with something strong and stirring. Besides, morality of so very obvious and didactic a sort was too great a contradiction to the taste of the times, and to Vanbrugh's own previous indulgence of it.
Página 54 - TELL me, dearest, what is love? 'Tis a lightning from above; 'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire, Tis a boy they call Desire. Tis a grave, Gapes to have Those poor fools that long to prove. Tell me more, are women true? Yes, some are, and some as you. Some are willing, some are strange, Since you men first taught to change. And till troth Be in both, All shall love, to love anew.
Página 106 - ... for want of charity itself. Yet we have now lived to see, that if the stage at that time was one hall licentious, in the other half it was not only innocent of all evil intention, but had a sort of piety in the very gaiety of its trust in nature ; while Jeremy Collier, if he was one half of him pious and well-intentioned, was in the other half little better than a violent fool.
Página 1 - ... worldly circumstances and no man of business, but to whom as a compensation they had given the feeling for poetry which Samuel lacked. At different times Dryden, Spenser, and Chaucer were respectively his favourite English poets ; and as there was nothing faithless in his inconstancy, he took up his new loves without ceasing to love the old. It is perhaps rather more surprising that he should have liked Spenser than that he should have liked the other two ; and we must suppose that the profusion...
Página 41 - Shakspeare's men had, in fact, any thought but of the earth they lived on, whatever supernatural fancy crossed them. The thing fancied was still a thing of this world, " in its habit as it lived," or no remoter acquaintance than a witch or a fairy. Its lowest depths (unless Dante suggested them) were the cellars under the stage. Caliban himself is a cross-breed between a witch and a clown. No offence to Shakspeare; who was not bound to be the greatest of healthy poets, and to have every morbid inspiration...
Página 21 - IF ever there was a born poet, Marlowe was one. He perceived things in their spiritual as well as material relations, and impressed them with a corresponding felicity. Rather, he struck them as with something sweet and glowing that rushes by ; — perfumes from a censer, — glances of love and beauty. And he could accumulate images into as deliberate and lofty a grandeur. Chapman said of him, that he stood Up to the chin in the Pierian flood. Drayton describes him as if inspired by the...
Página 106 - Collier, the non-juring clergyman who came forward to denounce the " wickedness" of the drama. "We mean, he assumed that the writers were so many knaves and fiends, who had positively malignant intentions ; and in so doing, he was not aware that he betrayed a vice in his own spirit, which if they had thought as ill of it as he did of their licence, would have warranted them in denouncing^ him as the far greater devil of the two. For to believe in such unmitigated wickedness at all, is itself the...
Página 79 - Meditations'? The Pilgrim's Progress has been called one; and, undoubtedly, Bunyan had a genius which tended to make him a poet, and one of no mean order: and yet it was of as ungenerous and low a sort as was compatible with so lofty an affinity; and this is the reason why it stopped where it did. He had a craving after the beautiful, but not enough of it in himself to echo to its music.