Odes, Lyrical Ballads, and Poems on Various Occasions

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author, 1809 - 311 Seiten
 

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Seite 91 - WE know not how our play may pass this stage, But by the best of poets in that age The Malta- Jew had being and was made ; And he then by the best of actors play'd: In Hero and Leander one did gain A lasting memory ; in Tamburlaine, This Jew, with others many, th...
Seite 27 - And hither in a broad-wheel'd waggon brought him ; For in a chaise the varlet ne'er could enter, And no mail-coach on such a fare would venture.
Seite 142 - Heart of oak are our men, We always are ready : Steady, boys, steady ! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Seite 44 - Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, 50 That borrow their behaviours from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Seite 78 - Language (nor perhaps in any) that is in any degree answerable to the Idea that I conceive of it. And I shall be ambitious of no other fruit from this weak and imperfect attempt of mine, but the opening of a way to the courage and industry of some other persons, who may be better able to perform it throughly and successfully.
Seite 126 - Romans endeavour'd our country to gain ; But our ancestors fought, and they fought not in vain. Such is our love of liberty, our country, and our laws, That, like our ancestors of old, we'll stand in freedom's cause : We'll bravely fight, like heroes bold, for honour and applause, And defy the French, with all their arts, to alter our laws.
Seite 28 - twas said of Macklin in the Jew, ' This is the very Falstatf Shakspeare drew." To you, with diffidence, he bids me say, Should you approve, you may command his stay, To lie and swagger here another day. If not, to better men he'll leave his sack, And go as ballast, in a collier, back.
Seite 27 - And no mail coach on such a fare would venture. Blest with unwieldiness (at least), his size Will favour find in every critic's eyes ; And should his humour, and his mimic art, Bear due proportion to his outward part,. — As once 'twas said of Macklin, in the Jew, — This is the very Falstaff Shakespeare drew.
Seite 91 - This Jew, with others many, th' other wan The attribute of peerless, being a man Whom we may rank with (doing no one wrong) Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for a tongue...
Seite 27 - But all good honest flesh and blood and bone, And weighing, more or less, some thirty stone. Upon the northern coast by chance we caught him And hither in a...

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