Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental and PhysicalJohn Hogg, Paternoster Row, 1880 - 360 sider |
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Side xi
... Shakespeare borrowed the plots of his plays - Shakespeare's contemporaries and imme- diate successors - Ben Jonson - Wit - combats at the " Mer- maid " -Beaumont - Fletcher - Dekker - Marston - Massinger- Webster - Ford - Chapman ...
... Shakespeare borrowed the plots of his plays - Shakespeare's contemporaries and imme- diate successors - Ben Jonson - Wit - combats at the " Mer- maid " -Beaumont - Fletcher - Dekker - Marston - Massinger- Webster - Ford - Chapman ...
Side 5
... Shakespeare or Ben Jonson , any more than that true and faithful sons are never to be found in our Victorian playwrights ; but that the dominant conception of the positions occupied by father and son is wholly different . Take , for ...
... Shakespeare or Ben Jonson , any more than that true and faithful sons are never to be found in our Victorian playwrights ; but that the dominant conception of the positions occupied by father and son is wholly different . Take , for ...
Side 19
... Shakespeare has told us the indispensable elements . it " should be pleasant without scurrility , witty without affectation , free without indecency , learned without conceitedness , novel without falsehood . " Or we may take the ...
... Shakespeare has told us the indispensable elements . it " should be pleasant without scurrility , witty without affectation , free without indecency , learned without conceitedness , novel without falsehood . " Or we may take the ...
Side 64
... Shakespeare's play , you will soon see that nothing could be made out of it if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were omitted . My con- tention is that it is better to play Rosencrantz well than to play Hamlet badly . It is more honourable ...
... Shakespeare's play , you will soon see that nothing could be made out of it if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were omitted . My con- tention is that it is better to play Rosencrantz well than to play Hamlet badly . It is more honourable ...
Side 68
... Shakespeare , Spenser and Wordsworth . Dr. Johnson owed much of his force of character to his poverty , which , indeed , in his case , approximated closely to want . He used to tell how Richard Savage and himself often walked the ...
... Shakespeare , Spenser and Wordsworth . Dr. Johnson owed much of his force of character to his poverty , which , indeed , in his case , approximated closely to want . He used to tell how Richard Savage and himself often walked the ...
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Side 299 - ... wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Side 194 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Side 298 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Side 93 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Side 309 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Side 298 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 299 - ... scattered and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please; only that he may try the matter by dint of argument, for his opponents then to...
Side 135 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Side 299 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Side 40 - ... and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on, thou art in thy duty be out of it who may ; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread.