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... character and direction . — The impulse given to the English mind in the age of Elizabeth was but one effect of that great movement of the European mind whose steps were marked by the revival of letters , the invention of printing , the ...
... character and direction . — The impulse given to the English mind in the age of Elizabeth was but one effect of that great movement of the European mind whose steps were marked by the revival of letters , the invention of printing , the ...
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... character in which it finds expression , in all the heights of ecstasy to which it soars , in all the depths of depravity to which it sinks , this is what the Elizabethan literature rep- resents or idealizes ; and the total effect of ...
... character in which it finds expression , in all the heights of ecstasy to which it soars , in all the depths of depravity to which it sinks , this is what the Elizabethan literature rep- resents or idealizes ; and the total effect of ...
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... character . They not only reasoned , but they had reason . They looked at things , and round things , and into things , and through things . - Though they were masters of the processes of logic , 8 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE.
... character . They not only reasoned , but they had reason . They looked at things , and round things , and into things , and through things . - Though they were masters of the processes of logic , 8 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE.
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... character . This equipoise and interpenetration of the faculties of the mind and the feelings of the heart , which give to these writers their largeness , dignity , sweetness , and power , are to be referred in a great degree to the ...
... character . This equipoise and interpenetration of the faculties of the mind and the feelings of the heart , which give to these writers their largeness , dignity , sweetness , and power , are to be referred in a great degree to the ...
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... character , class , and condition , in all their varieties , were directly imaged . Lamb calls all this a visible poetry ; and much which we now read as poetry was simply the transference into language of the common facts of the time ...
... character , class , and condition , in all their varieties , were directly imaged . Lamb calls all this a visible poetry ; and much which we now read as poetry was simply the transference into language of the common facts of the time ...
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Page 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Page 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.