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Page 163 - that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy. As he is very potent with such spirits,
Page 167 - The opinion that Hamlet is held back from action by conscientious scruples was forcibly put by a writer in the Quarterly Review in 1847. Hamlet accuses himself either of " Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event,
Page 165 - to be implied in the couplet,— "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Page 171 - looked upon as an unworthy thing. The essay opens with these words: " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Page 292 - When the hounds of Spring are on Winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain."—
Page 213 - i' odo. lo veggio ben come le vostre penne Diretro al dittator sen vanno strette, Che delle nostre certo non avvenne."' As in our sonnet, il Notaro, Giacomo da Lentino, is here taken as the foremost representative of the Sicilian school. Of this school Bonagiunta was a distinguished member in the second half of the thirteenth century, and he did not lack admirers.*
Page 194 - is included within the compass of four or five lines, and then he begins again in the same tenor; perpetually closing his sense at the end of a verse, and that verse commonly what they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb between them to keep the peace.
Page 227 - thought to form unto my zealous Muse, What kind of creature I should most desire, To honor, serve, and love, as poets use. I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise, Of greatest
Page 292 - And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to bark at him."—
Page 194 - tone of voice accompanies them ; as suppose, Wise, valiant, generous, good, and great. These words, by having no application, ought to be unoperative; but when words commonly sacred to great occasions are used, we are affected by them even without the occasions." I turn to Browning, and, reading The