A Study of the Types of LiteratureCentury Company, 1921 - 540 Seiten |
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Alfred Noyes Alfred Tennyson American American Anstruther Aylmer Barsad Beowulf British Alfred Tennyson British British British British Robert British Thomas Carton chapter character Charles Charles Darnay Comus dear death doth drama earth Elegy epic Essay Exeunt eyes father Faustus Georgiana give Guildenstern Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry Henry Van Dyke Horatio Imitation ballad John King Kipling Lady Laer Laertes literature live Longfellow look lord Madame Defarge madness Manette Markheim metrical romance Metrical tale Miscellaneous lit Nathaniel Hawthorne never night novel Ophelia Percy MacKaye play poem poetry Polonius prisoner prose Queen Robert Burns Rosencrantz Rudyard Kipling scene Shakespeare Simple lyric sing Song Sonnet soul speech spirit Stevenson story Stryver sweet tell thee things Thomas Hood thou thought Wilkins-Freeman William William Wordsworth wind Wordsworth
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Seite 214 - see a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it.
Seite 75 - man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither; Can in a moment travel thither— And see the children sport upon the shore,
Seite 204 - mind. Ham. 0 God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. GuiL Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. Ham. A dream itself is but a shadow.
Seite 86 - Shakespeare When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes now wail my dear time's waste; Then can I drown an eye unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's
Seite 235 - 11 be with you straight. Go a little before. [Exeunt all except Hamlet.] How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Seite 76 - That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. SUGGESTIONS
Seite 190 - And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportional thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd,
Seite 94 - raise 1° (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise,
Seite 95 - recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, I2 5 But, swoln with wind and the. rank mist they draw, ]{ot inwardly, and foul contagion spread
Seite 131 - the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way; 1°