The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Zväzok 4Hurd and Houghton, 1876 |
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... Roman stage there was an art , now entirely lost , of narrating , and , in part of dramati- cally representing an impassioned tale , by means of dancing , of musical accompaniment in the orchestra , and of elaborate pantomime in the ...
... Roman stage there was an art , now entirely lost , of narrating , and , in part of dramati- cally representing an impassioned tale , by means of dancing , of musical accompaniment in the orchestra , and of elaborate pantomime in the ...
Strana 58
... Roman Catholic establishment , would have been more effec- tive . The Coryphaus himself seemed , to my eyes , no better than a railway laborer , fresh from tunnelling or boring , and wearing a blouse to hide his working dress . These ...
... Roman Catholic establishment , would have been more effec- tive . The Coryphaus himself seemed , to my eyes , no better than a railway laborer , fresh from tunnelling or boring , and wearing a blouse to hide his working dress . These ...
Strana 87
... Roman conquest . Henceforwards the text of Homer suffered no further disturbance or inquisition , until it reached the little wicked generation ( ourselves and our immediate fathers ) which we have the honor to address . Now , let us ...
... Roman conquest . Henceforwards the text of Homer suffered no further disturbance or inquisition , until it reached the little wicked generation ( ourselves and our immediate fathers ) which we have the honor to address . Now , let us ...
Strana 150
... Roman poets that , precisely as they were antique , they were careless , or at least very inartificial in the management of their metre . Thus Lucilius , Ennius , even Lucre- tius , leave a class of faults in their verse , from which ...
... Roman poets that , precisely as they were antique , they were careless , or at least very inartificial in the management of their metre . Thus Lucilius , Ennius , even Lucre- tius , leave a class of faults in their verse , from which ...
Strana 160
... Roman literature , no dream ever arose of interweaving a fictitious interest with a true one . Nor was the possibility then recognized of any interest founded in fiction , even though kept apart from his- toric records . Look at Statius ...
... Roman literature , no dream ever arose of interweaving a fictitious interest with a true one . Nor was the possibility then recognized of any interest founded in fiction , even though kept apart from his- toric records . Look at Statius ...
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Strana 525 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Strana 504 - The pleasure-house is dust : behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom ; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Strana 351 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Strana 329 - The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Strana 351 - ... of the low fat Bedford Level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Strana 457 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Strana 531 - FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth : it was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account: the effect was — that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity: yet, however obstinately I endeavoured with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect.
Strana 535 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Strana 351 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Strana 472 - Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver: Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke.