The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 21, Part 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... thee I call , who , over swelling tides of blood and tears , dost bear the hero on to glory , while sighs of millions waft his spreading sails ; but thee , fair , gentle maid , whom Mnesis , happy nymph , first on the banks of Hebrus ...
... thee I call , who , over swelling tides of blood and tears , dost bear the hero on to glory , while sighs of millions waft his spreading sails ; but thee , fair , gentle maid , whom Mnesis , happy nymph , first on the banks of Hebrus ...
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... thee learns a grave and solemn air ; while tragedy storms loud , and rends the affrighted theatres with its thunder . To soothe thy wearied limbs in slumber , Alderman History tells his tedious tale ; and , again , to awaken thee ...
... thee learns a grave and solemn air ; while tragedy storms loud , and rends the affrighted theatres with its thunder . To soothe thy wearied limbs in slumber , Alderman History tells his tedious tale ; and , again , to awaken thee ...
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... thee is no dif- ficult task , to know mankind better than they know themselves . Remove that mist which dims the intellects of mortals , and causes them to adore men for their art , or to detest them for their cunning in deceiving ...
... thee is no dif- ficult task , to know mankind better than they know themselves . Remove that mist which dims the intellects of mortals , and causes them to adore men for their art , or to detest them for their cunning in deceiving ...
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... Thee , in thy favourite fields , where the limpid , gently - rolling Thames washes thy Etonian banks , in early youth I have worshipped . To thee , at thy birchen altar , with true Spartan devotion , I have sacrificed my blood . Come ...
... Thee , in thy favourite fields , where the limpid , gently - rolling Thames washes thy Etonian banks , in early youth I have worshipped . To thee , at thy birchen altar , with true Spartan devotion , I have sacrificed my blood . Come ...
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... thee to be pos- sessed of this sanguine disposition of mind since , after having read much , and considered long on that subject of happiness which hath employed so many great pens , I am almost inclined to fix it in the possession of ...
... thee to be pos- sessed of this sanguine disposition of mind since , after having read much , and considered long on that subject of happiness which hath employed so many great pens , I am almost inclined to fix it in the possession of ...
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Page 133 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 213 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 213 - ... critic was now pretty silent till the play, which Hamlet introduces before the king. This he did not at first understand, till Jones explained it to him; but he no sooner entered into the spirit of it, than he began to bless himself that he had never committed murder. Then turning to Mrs. Miller, he asked her, "If she did not imagine the King looked as if he was touched; though he is," said he, "a good actor, and doth all he can to hide it.
Page 210 - To which Partridge replied, with a smile, Persuade me to that, sir, if you can. Though I can't say I ever actually saw a ghost in my life, yet I am certain I should know one, if I saw him, better than that comes to. No, no, sir ; ghosts don't appear in such dresses as that neither.
Page 209 - That refined degree of Platonic affection which is absolutely detached from the flesh, and is indeed entirely and purely spiritual, is a gift confined to the female part of the creation ; many of whom I have heard declare (and doubtless with great truth) that they would, with the utmost readiness, resign a lover to a rival, when such resignation was proved to be necessary for the temporal interest of such lover.
Page 213 - No wonder, then," cries Partridge, " that the place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse grave-digger. I had a sexton, when I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is digging one. The fellow handles a spade as if it was the first time he had ever had one in his hand. Ay, ay, you may sing. You had rather sing than work, I believe.
Page 210 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything ; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 212 - During the second act, Partridge made very few remarks. He greatly admired the fineness of the dresses; nor could he help observing upon the king's countenance. "Well," said he, "how people may be deceived by faces?
Page 212 - Partridge sat in fearful expectation of this; and now, when the ghost made his next appearance, Partridge cried out, "There, sir, now! what say you now? Is he frightened now, or no? As much frightened as you think me, — and to be sure, nobody can help some fears. I would not be in so bad a condition as what 's his name, — Squire Hamlet, — is there, for all the world.
Page 211 - ... things, though I know there is nothing in them : not that it was the ghost that surprised me, neither; (for I should have known that to have been only a man in a strange dress ) but when I saw the little man so frightened himself, it was that which took hold of me.