Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by ShakespeareParry & McMillan, 1856 - 466 Seiten |
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... Look round about on this once populous town ! Not one of these innumerous house - tops But hides some spectral form of misery , Some peevish , pining child , and moaning mother , Some aged man , that in his dotage scolds , Not knowing ...
... Look round about on this once populous town ! Not one of these innumerous house - tops But hides some spectral form of misery , Some peevish , pining child , and moaning mother , Some aged man , that in his dotage scolds , Not knowing ...
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... looks upon the multitu- dinous facts of past times , that these facts are duly arrayed and harmonized into just order and proportion . Amid the actual occurrences , how much is there that is unmeaning and worthless - nay , worse than ...
... looks upon the multitu- dinous facts of past times , that these facts are duly arrayed and harmonized into just order and proportion . Amid the actual occurrences , how much is there that is unmeaning and worthless - nay , worse than ...
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... look back on past ages . Worse than all , the most familiar history of England , the classic history , I mean Mr. Hume's , —is the product of a mind , that could look upon other times only through those deadly vapours that are ...
... look back on past ages . Worse than all , the most familiar history of England , the classic history , I mean Mr. Hume's , —is the product of a mind , that could look upon other times only through those deadly vapours that are ...
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... look upon distant ages in the spirit of those ages , and thus to give a genuine knowledge of them . Instead of this , history is made controversial ; it is tortured into the sanction or the sub- version of some system ; and it is seen ...
... look upon distant ages in the spirit of those ages , and thus to give a genuine knowledge of them . Instead of this , history is made controversial ; it is tortured into the sanction or the sub- version of some system ; and it is seen ...
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... look on — at our side Be Charity , to bid us think And feel if we would know . " * This spirit of capacious charity , which is one of the characteristics of the imaginative mind , brings with it this great gain , that it leads the ...
... look on — at our side Be Charity , to bid us think And feel if we would know . " * This spirit of capacious charity , which is one of the characteristics of the imaginative mind , brings with it this great gain , that it leads the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient Banquo battle beautiful blood Bolingbroke Britain British career character Christian chroniclers conquest course crown dark death drama Duke Duke of York Edward Edward the Confessor elements England English history faith Falstaff father feeling France genius gentle give guilt Hamlet hand hath heart heaven Henry the Fifth Henry the Fourth historian honour house of York human Iago Iago's illustration imagination innocent intellect Joan of Arc Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Lancaster Lancastrian land lecture look Lord Macbeth memory mind misery moral murder mysterious nature noble Othello palace passions period play poet poet's poetic poetry pride Prince Prince of Wales racter reign of Henry Richard the Second Roman royal Saxon scene seems sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's sorrow soul sovereign speak spirit story supernatural sympathy thee thing thou thought throne tion tragedy tragic truth utterance victory words Wordsworth's Yorkists
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 304 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 456 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Seite 389 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Seite 140 - And, father Cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven; If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Seite 306 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, 40 thou hast built a paper-mill.
Seite 460 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Seite 326 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Seite 141 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Seite 333 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee: Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's...
Seite 176 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...