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... translation of them . Shakespeare had been indebted to several . 66 Chapman had translated Homer excellently in some parts , but he did not agree in Lamb's wholesale applause of the verse , and wished that the old poet had continued ...
... translation of them . Shakespeare had been indebted to several . 66 Chapman had translated Homer excellently in some parts , but he did not agree in Lamb's wholesale applause of the verse , and wished that the old poet had continued ...
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... I may be mistaken , but this was my impression . " Lamb mentioned the translation of Tasso by Fairfax , of which Wordsworth said he had no copy , and was not well acquainted with it . Lamb gave it as his opinion Xxxii PREFACE .
... I may be mistaken , but this was my impression . " Lamb mentioned the translation of Tasso by Fairfax , of which Wordsworth said he had no copy , and was not well acquainted with it . Lamb gave it as his opinion Xxxii PREFACE .
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... translation in English ; and , being asked for an explanation of his apparent paradox , he stammered a little , and then went on , pretty flowingly , to say that it was the best for the air of originality and ease , which marked many of ...
... translation in English ; and , being asked for an explanation of his apparent paradox , he stammered a little , and then went on , pretty flowingly , to say that it was the best for the air of originality and ease , which marked many of ...
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... translation , of the date of 1600 , in which the whole of the first leaf had been reprinted , with several variations , in order that the translator's third attempt at an opening stanza might be inserted . Wordsworth thanked me in a ...
... translation , of the date of 1600 , in which the whole of the first leaf had been reprinted , with several variations , in order that the translator's third attempt at an opening stanza might be inserted . Wordsworth thanked me in a ...
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... translating Tasso , must have had Spenser in his memory , if not in his eye ; and it was contended by Hazlitt , that it would have been impossible for Fairfax to have done better moreover , he insisted that in translating this part of ...
... translating Tasso , must have had Spenser in his memory , if not in his eye ; and it was contended by Hazlitt , that it would have been impossible for Fairfax to have done better moreover , he insisted that in translating this part of ...
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ACT I.-SCENE admiration adverted afterwards Beaumont and Fletcher beauty bed and bower better blunder cæsura called character Charles Lamb Coleridge Coleridge's copy death doth flourish drama dramatist Dyce edition editor English Fairfax father feeling folio friends genius give Hamlet hast hath Hazlitt heard heart heaven Iliad imitation instance Jerusalem Delivered Julius Cæsar King lady Lamb language Lectures live lord love's Love's Labour's Lost means Milton mind misprint moral nature never Notes and Emendations observed old corrector opinion original passage passion person play pleasure poem poet poetry praise Praxiteles printed purpose remark rhyme Richard II Romeo Romeo and Juliet Samson Agonistes SCENE sense Shakespeare Southey speak Spenser stanza from Book Tasso thee things thou may'st Loving thought Three great ancient Thucydides Titian translation true V.-SCENE whole words Wordsworth writing written
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Page 103 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Page 135 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 18 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page lxxiii - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page xcix - Who I, sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish; and the first letter of my name begins with L.
Page 135 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good, and market 1 of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more.
Page 135 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 13 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 1 - 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.
Page 53 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
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The Politics and Processes of Scholarship Joseph Moxley,Lagretta Tallent Lenker No preview available - 1995 |