Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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Pàgina 12
... once , like Macbeth , we " sup full with horrors , " our taste for the banquet is ended , and the thrill of terror with which we hear or read of a night - shriek , becomes lost in that sated indifference with which the tyrant came at ...
... once , like Macbeth , we " sup full with horrors , " our taste for the banquet is ended , and the thrill of terror with which we hear or read of a night - shriek , becomes lost in that sated indifference with which the tyrant came at ...
Pàgina 14
... once , than that they still continue to afford us amusement . The extravagance of fiction loses its charms for our riper judgment ; and notwithstanding that these wild fictions con- tain much that is beautiful and full of fancy , yet ...
... once , than that they still continue to afford us amusement . The extravagance of fiction loses its charms for our riper judgment ; and notwithstanding that these wild fictions con- tain much that is beautiful and full of fancy , yet ...
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... once a common stock of tradition ? We will not pause on this inquiry , nor observe more than generally that , in collecting these traditions , the industrious editors have been throwing light , not only on the history of their own ...
... once a common stock of tradition ? We will not pause on this inquiry , nor observe more than generally that , in collecting these traditions , the industrious editors have been throwing light , not only on the history of their own ...
Pàgina 22
... once the industry of the scholar , and the talents of the man of genius . The efforts of this accomplished author aim at a higher mood of composition than the more popular romancer . He endea- vours to recall the history , the mythology ...
... once the industry of the scholar , and the talents of the man of genius . The efforts of this accomplished author aim at a higher mood of composition than the more popular romancer . He endea- vours to recall the history , the mythology ...
Pàgina 23
Walter Scott. with infidelity and ingratitude . The story is the contrast at once , and the pendant to the Diable Amoureux of Cazotte , but is entirely free from a tone of polissonnerie which shocks good taste in its very lively ...
Walter Scott. with infidelity and ingratitude . The story is the contrast at once , and the pendant to the Diable Amoureux of Cazotte , but is entirely free from a tone of polissonnerie which shocks good taste in its very lively ...
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Pàgina 13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Pàgina 12 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Pàgina 45 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Pàgina 31 - When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great...
Pàgina 412 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Pàgina 204 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Pàgina 12 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pàgina 12 - ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb: Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree.
Pàgina 13 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pàgina 157 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.