Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... amusement , new games and new pleasures which will speedily become necessities . To such festivities as these the dramatic poet invites the assembled people . He undertakes to divert them , but the amusement which he supplies is one of ...
... amusement , new games and new pleasures which will speedily become necessities . To such festivities as these the dramatic poet invites the assembled people . He undertakes to divert them , but the amusement which he supplies is one of ...
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... amusement and a necessity . Dramatic poetry , more than any other branch of literature , depends upon this deep - seated and general union of the arts with society . It is not satisfied with the tranquil pleasures of enlightened ...
... amusement and a necessity . Dramatic poetry , more than any other branch of literature , depends upon this deep - seated and general union of the arts with society . It is not satisfied with the tranquil pleasures of enlightened ...
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... amusements of his youth gives no hint whatever of the tastes and pleasures of a literary life . We live in times of civilization and progress , when every thing has its place and rule , and when the destiny of every individual is ...
... amusements of his youth gives no hint whatever of the tastes and pleasures of a literary life . We live in times of civilization and progress , when every thing has its place and rule , and when the destiny of every individual is ...
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... amusement and the idol ! Alas for this melan- choly subjection of man to the external world ! Gifted with useless power if his horizon be less extensive than his capacity of vision , he sees only that which lies around him ; and Heaven ...
... amusement and the idol ! Alas for this melan- choly subjection of man to the external world ! Gifted with useless power if his horizon be less extensive than his capacity of vision , he sees only that which lies around him ; and Heaven ...
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... amusements and com- panions of his leisure hours , afforded him any materials adapted to affect and absorb that imagination , the power of which had begun to agitate his being . Rushing into all the excitements which he met on his way ...
... amusements and com- panions of his leisure hours , afforded him any materials adapted to affect and absorb that imagination , the power of which had begun to agitate his being . Rushing into all the excitements which he met on his way ...
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Page 283 - Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
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Page 40 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
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Page 40 - CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair, Fresh-quilted colors through the air. Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree!
Page 163 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.