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... rest , the world would be the richer for the exchange . They talk very grandly of Homer . Well , admitting that Homer in imaginative and creative power is the equal of Shakespeare , he is his equal in quality alone but not in ...
... rest , the world would be the richer for the exchange . They talk very grandly of Homer . Well , admitting that Homer in imaginative and creative power is the equal of Shakespeare , he is his equal in quality alone but not in ...
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... rest of us , but within his limitations no greater than he has arisen , or perhaps is ever likely to arise . " The voyaging spirit of man cannot remain within the enclosure of any one age or any single mind . We need to supplement the ...
... rest of us , but within his limitations no greater than he has arisen , or perhaps is ever likely to arise . " The voyaging spirit of man cannot remain within the enclosure of any one age or any single mind . We need to supplement the ...
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... rest of us , to bow down at the shrine of the great bard ; but Dr Johnson was himself a pontiff in literature , and obeisance is unbecoming in a pope . It is amusing ; for what does the learned Doctor mean when he asserts that ...
... rest of us , to bow down at the shrine of the great bard ; but Dr Johnson was himself a pontiff in literature , and obeisance is unbecoming in a pope . It is amusing ; for what does the learned Doctor mean when he asserts that ...
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... , so to speak , at the expense of the rest , and concentrate on that alone , may gain for a man a sort of frozen respect from his fellows , but it will hardly confer much happiness on himself , SHAKESPEARE'S AGE , AND ITS CHARACTER 61.
... , so to speak , at the expense of the rest , and concentrate on that alone , may gain for a man a sort of frozen respect from his fellows , but it will hardly confer much happiness on himself , SHAKESPEARE'S AGE , AND ITS CHARACTER 61.
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... rest of the play revolves , are not merely living human beings , but great types of character as well . And it is this excess , growth , and predominance in them of one great virtue or defect , that brings the majority of them to an ...
... rest of the play revolves , are not merely living human beings , but great types of character as well . And it is this excess , growth , and predominance in them of one great virtue or defect , that brings the majority of them to an ...
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Page 95 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Page 36 - O ! there be players, that I have seen play — and heard others praise, and that highly— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 135 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 93 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers...
Page 121 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 12 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 66 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 225 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 100 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 94 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.