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Hippolyte Taine. III . Combative energy -- Polemic against the bishops-- Against the king - Enthusiasm and sternness— Theories on government , church , and education -Stoicism and virtue - Old age , occupations , person IV . Milton's ...
Hippolyte Taine. III . Combative energy -- Polemic against the bishops-- Against the king - Enthusiasm and sternness— Theories on government , church , and education -Stoicism and virtue - Old age , occupations , person IV . Milton's ...
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... king sigh , but with a general groan . " 1 Here we have three successive images to express the same thought . It is a whole blossoming ; a bough grows from the trunk , from that another , which is multiplied into numerous fresh branches ...
... king sigh , but with a general groan . " 1 Here we have three successive images to express the same thought . It is a whole blossoming ; a bough grows from the trunk , from that another , which is multiplied into numerous fresh branches ...
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... kings are men , and fathers of families . The terrible Leontes who is about to order the death of his wife and his friend , plays like a child with his son : caresses him , gives him all the pretty pet names which mothers are wont to ...
... kings are men , and fathers of families . The terrible Leontes who is about to order the death of his wife and his friend , plays like a child with his son : caresses him , gives him all the pretty pet names which mothers are wont to ...
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... other scenes . 2 Much Ado about Nothing . See also the manner in which Henry V. in Shakspeare's King Henry V. pays court to Katharine of France ( v . 2 ) . for the bystanders . These " skirmishes of wit " CHAP . IV . 79 SHAKSPEARE .
... other scenes . 2 Much Ado about Nothing . See also the manner in which Henry V. in Shakspeare's King Henry V. pays court to Katharine of France ( v . 2 ) . for the bystanders . These " skirmishes of wit " CHAP . IV . 79 SHAKSPEARE .
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... King Lear has escaped : " Fellows , hold the chair . Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot . ( Gloucester is held down in the chair , while Cornwall plucks out one of his eyes , and sets his foot on it . ) VOL . II . 1 Henry VI . 2d ...
... King Lear has escaped : " Fellows , hold the chair . Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot . ( Gloucester is held down in the chair , while Cornwall plucks out one of his eyes , and sets his foot on it . ) VOL . II . 1 Henry VI . 2d ...
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Page 64 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 274 - ... books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons teeth, and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 116 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 172 - Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent ; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 297 - Created pure. But know, that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Page 310 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 197 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Page 306 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS and in the midst of the Seven Candlesticks one like unto the SON OF MAN clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps (breast) with a golden girdle.
Page 125 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 244 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.