The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volumen4Hurd and Houghton, 1876 |
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... poet , all the depths of philosophy ( at least , of any known and recognized philosophy ) would less avail to explain , speculatively , the principles which , in such a case , should guide him , than Shakspeare has explained by his ...
... poet , all the depths of philosophy ( at least , of any known and recognized philosophy ) would less avail to explain , speculatively , the principles which , in such a case , should guide him , than Shakspeare has explained by his ...
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... from that condition of ordinary breath- ing life which it was the constant effort of the Greek tragedy to escape ; and therefore it was that the Greek poet preferred the gloomy idea of Fate : not 12 THEORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY .
... from that condition of ordinary breath- ing life which it was the constant effort of the Greek tragedy to escape ; and therefore it was that the Greek poet preferred the gloomy idea of Fate : not 12 THEORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY .
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... poet who wanted only the situation , but would have repelled a poet who sought also for the complex features of a character . It is true that such remote and fabulous periods are visited at times , though not haunted , by the modern ...
... poet who wanted only the situation , but would have repelled a poet who sought also for the complex features of a character . It is true that such remote and fabulous periods are visited at times , though not haunted , by the modern ...
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... poet used simply that faint outline of character , in its gross distinctions of good and bad , which the situation itself implied . For example , the Creon of Thebes is pretty uniformly exhibited as tyrannical and cruel . But that was ...
... poet used simply that faint outline of character , in its gross distinctions of good and bad , which the situation itself implied . For example , the Creon of Thebes is pretty uniformly exhibited as tyrannical and cruel . But that was ...
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... poet ; partly because antiquity ennobled ; partly also because , by abstract- ing the individualities of a character , it left the his- toric figure in that neutral state which was most entirely passive to the moulding and determining ...
... poet ; partly because antiquity ennobled ; partly also because , by abstract- ing the individualities of a character , it left the his- toric figure in that neutral state which was most entirely passive to the moulding and determining ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.