Modern English Essays ...Ernest Rhys J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1922 |
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... play - house as a triumphant beauty of eighteen , Prior had celebrated in some of his brightest and airiest verses , and whose picture , as a milkmaid of quality , painted by 66 66 Jervas at a later date , is to 38 AUSTIN DOBSON.
... play - house as a triumphant beauty of eighteen , Prior had celebrated in some of his brightest and airiest verses , and whose picture , as a milkmaid of quality , painted by 66 66 Jervas at a later date , is to 38 AUSTIN DOBSON.
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... play upon the instrument which had become his one thing of worth after the death of a companion who had left him alone with his own soul . " The odd definition of the highest poetry as sense swooning into nonsense seems made for such ...
... play upon the instrument which had become his one thing of worth after the death of a companion who had left him alone with his own soul . " The odd definition of the highest poetry as sense swooning into nonsense seems made for such ...
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... play . Like Hawthorne in prose , Poe possessed in poetry a style as strange as it was individual , a style trebly remarkable because it was the property of a hack - writer . When all is said , Poe remains a master of fantastic and ...
... play . Like Hawthorne in prose , Poe possessed in poetry a style as strange as it was individual , a style trebly remarkable because it was the property of a hack - writer . When all is said , Poe remains a master of fantastic and ...
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... so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy . These have been claimed for Fletcher , since he inserted them in his play of The Nice Valour , but possibly were composed by Dr. William Strode , who flourished IIO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
... so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy . These have been claimed for Fletcher , since he inserted them in his play of The Nice Valour , but possibly were composed by Dr. William Strode , who flourished IIO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
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... play was fished out from the mess , changed by Payne into an opera , and produced as Clari , the Maid of Milan . Miss Tree , the elder sister of Mrs. Charles Kean , was in the first cast , and sang Home , Sweet Home , one of the 66 gems ...
... play was fished out from the mess , changed by Payne into an opera , and produced as Clari , the Maid of Milan . Miss Tree , the elder sister of Mrs. Charles Kean , was in the first cast , and sang Home , Sweet Home , one of the 66 gems ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ANDREW LANG appears AUGUSTINE BIRRELL AUSTIN DOBSON ballad beauty better Bishop called Carlyle Carlyle's cats century charming Christopher Smart Clement's Inn Court criticism cynic death delight doubt Duchess EDGAR ALLAN POE Edmund Gosse English essay eyes Falstaff favour Garrick Gay's genius give Goldsmith Good-Natur'd H. C. BEECHING Haunted Palace heart historian honour HUGH LATIMER human humour John king lady Latimer Latimer's literary live London Lord lyric melancholy mind Moncrif nature never once opinion passion perhaps pieces Plato Poe's poem poet poetical poetry political poor Pope preached purgatory recognised remember Samuel Woodworth seems sermon Smart song soul Spens Spenser spirit stanzas Stoops to Conquer Sweet tell things thou thought tion true turtle Ulalume verses volume walking tour words writing written wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 209 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Seite 143 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Seite 232 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Seite 36 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Seite 35 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Seite 224 - He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Seite 86 - I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.
Seite 118 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.