The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... received generally the impress of the pure tragedy of the Greeks , while the most celebrated of the tragic works of Dryden assumed the form of the mixed drama of Romance . The use of rhyme is of far higher antiquity in this country than ...
... received generally the impress of the pure tragedy of the Greeks , while the most celebrated of the tragic works of Dryden assumed the form of the mixed drama of Romance . The use of rhyme is of far higher antiquity in this country than ...
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... Masque , of an age intervening be- tween the Mysteries and the Comus , received in some degree the impress of the early French poetry . trast the achievements of Dryden with those of succeeding writers 4 July , The Genius of Dryden .
... Masque , of an age intervening be- tween the Mysteries and the Comus , received in some degree the impress of the early French poetry . trast the achievements of Dryden with those of succeeding writers 4 July , The Genius of Dryden .
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... received into society , the indignity sustained by Dryden was held as a stigma on the social position of the poet , much as the refusal of a challenge to fight a duel would have been regarded thirty years ago . - 6 Dryden was scarcely ...
... received into society , the indignity sustained by Dryden was held as a stigma on the social position of the poet , much as the refusal of a challenge to fight a duel would have been regarded thirty years ago . - 6 Dryden was scarcely ...
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... receiving , at the hands of Collier , the rebuke and the chastisement of a satyr . His latest reflections might then have been those of that old man of Rydal's Mount , whose life has served pre - eminently to illustrate the happy ...
... receiving , at the hands of Collier , the rebuke and the chastisement of a satyr . His latest reflections might then have been those of that old man of Rydal's Mount , whose life has served pre - eminently to illustrate the happy ...
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... received for what they are worth ) by whoever would attain to a real understanding of the past , the present , or the future state of France . As opposed to any accidental form of government — whether Republic , Military Despotism , or ...
... received for what they are worth ) by whoever would attain to a real understanding of the past , the present , or the future state of France . As opposed to any accidental form of government — whether Republic , Military Despotism , or ...
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Página 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Página 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Página 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Página 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Página 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Página 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Página 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Página 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Página 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!