The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1860 |
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... Shakespeare's apprenticeship to the muses , in " The Rape of Lucrece , " and in 1609 was made the foundation of one of his favourite plays . Chaucer seems at this time to have been diligently and purposely engaged in the polishing and ...
... Shakespeare's apprenticeship to the muses , in " The Rape of Lucrece , " and in 1609 was made the foundation of one of his favourite plays . Chaucer seems at this time to have been diligently and purposely engaged in the polishing and ...
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... SHAKESPEARE . THE Commencement of another year again introduces us to our friends with new hopes and new aspirations . The kind companion- ship of ten years has created many bonds of attachment , uniting the British Controversialists ...
... SHAKESPEARE . THE Commencement of another year again introduces us to our friends with new hopes and new aspirations . The kind companion- ship of ten years has created many bonds of attachment , uniting the British Controversialists ...
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... Shakespeare or Massinger required for the pro- duction of a new drama . Yet he could dash off merry and stinging squibs and jeux d'esprit , lightsome and nettley enough to be mis- taken for Moore's , and of such merit as to find ...
... Shakespeare or Massinger required for the pro- duction of a new drama . Yet he could dash off merry and stinging squibs and jeux d'esprit , lightsome and nettley enough to be mis- taken for Moore's , and of such merit as to find ...
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... Shakespeare , Taylor and Barrow , -and those men 66 " Must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake , ” — how great must be our debt to the first mighty master - spirit , who poured the vast life of his soul into this ...
... Shakespeare , Taylor and Barrow , -and those men 66 " Must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake , ” — how great must be our debt to the first mighty master - spirit , who poured the vast life of his soul into this ...
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... Shakespeare makes Chaucer's patron say , that- " The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony : Where words are scarce , they're seldom spent in vain ; For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain . He that no ...
... Shakespeare makes Chaucer's patron say , that- " The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony : Where words are scarce , they're seldom spent in vain ; For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain . He that no ...
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Page 82 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 220 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 191 - I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Page 249 - All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Page 163 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 230 - ... as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Page 276 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Page 23 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 27 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new ; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 255 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...