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... dramatic weakness of the masque , waxes ironic in describing the action , and shows that he only half appreciates the songs . They are " harsh in their diction , and not very musical in their numbers . " It will test excellently whether ...
... dramatic weakness of the masque , waxes ironic in describing the action , and shows that he only half appreciates the songs . They are " harsh in their diction , and not very musical in their numbers . " It will test excellently whether ...
Page xlv
... dramatic energy " in its dialogue ; epic may treat " shades of vice and virtue " as admirably as drama ; epic may , like the drama , exhibit skill in drawing character and handling the passions . He would hold that the passions , the ...
... dramatic energy " in its dialogue ; epic may treat " shades of vice and virtue " as admirably as drama ; epic may , like the drama , exhibit skill in drawing character and handling the passions . He would hold that the passions , the ...
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... dramatic , ethical , and psychological ; ele- ments drawn from the poet's knowledge of man- kind and external nature ... drama could do . To Milton's main conceptions , his imagination and his characters , full justice is done . But ...
... dramatic , ethical , and psychological ; ele- ments drawn from the poet's knowledge of man- kind and external nature ... drama could do . To Milton's main conceptions , his imagination and his characters , full justice is done . But ...
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... drama in the remark , " Cato is a being above our solicitude . " 1 His regard for ' Cato ' was natural in an Oxford ... dramas , while Addison knows so little of Greek literature that in his ' Chevy Chase ' papers he thinks Homer wrote ...
... drama in the remark , " Cato is a being above our solicitude . " 1 His regard for ' Cato ' was natural in an Oxford ... dramas , while Addison knows so little of Greek literature that in his ' Chevy Chase ' papers he thinks Homer wrote ...
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... drama , Addison is coldly Roman , in the ' Spectator ' he is at his gentlest . And it is easier to believe with Thackeray in his kind- liness as a satirist than to accept Professor Minto's theory of its essentially malevolent basis ...
... drama , Addison is coldly Roman , in the ' Spectator ' he is at his gentlest . And it is easier to believe with Thackeray in his kind- liness as a satirist than to accept Professor Minto's theory of its essentially malevolent basis ...
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LIVES OF MILTON & ADDISON Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson,J. Wight (John Wight) 1866-1944 Duff No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 199 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 198 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 200 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 202 - Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well...
Page 13 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 204 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. (Laying his hand on his sword.) Thus am I doubly arm'd: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
Page 6 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 201 - BLINDNESS ] When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, • And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, 6 ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Page 203 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 192 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...