Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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Strana 102
... Arcadia " of Sir Philip Sidney as a " tedious , lamentable , pedantic , pastoral romance , " was Horace Walpole ; a decision suited to the heartless- ness which wounded the personal qualities of an heroic man , the pride of a proud age ...
... Arcadia " of Sir Philip Sidney as a " tedious , lamentable , pedantic , pastoral romance , " was Horace Walpole ; a decision suited to the heartless- ness which wounded the personal qualities of an heroic man , the pride of a proud age ...
Strana 103
... Arcadia " like a frost in spring . The agreeable researcher into the history of fiction confesses the graceful beauty of the language , but considers the whole as " extremely tiresome . " Another critic states a more alarming paroxysm ...
... Arcadia " like a frost in spring . The agreeable researcher into the history of fiction confesses the graceful beauty of the language , but considers the whole as " extremely tiresome . " Another critic states a more alarming paroxysm ...
Strana 104
... Arcadia , " which served them as a com- plete " Academy of Compliments . " The reader who concludes that " The Arcadia " of Sidney is a pedantic pastoral , has received a very erroneous conception of the work . It was unfortunate for ...
... Arcadia , " which served them as a com- plete " Academy of Compliments . " The reader who concludes that " The Arcadia " of Sidney is a pedantic pastoral , has received a very erroneous conception of the work . It was unfortunate for ...
Strana 106
... Arcadia " is peculiar ; but if the reader's fortitude can yield up his own fancy to the feudal poet , he will find the tales diversified . Sidney had traced the vestiges of feudal warfare in Germany , in Italy , and in France ; those ...
... Arcadia " is peculiar ; but if the reader's fortitude can yield up his own fancy to the feudal poet , he will find the tales diversified . Sidney had traced the vestiges of feudal warfare in Germany , in Italy , and in France ; those ...
Strana 107
... Arcadia . " There is something , indeed , in the language and the conduct of Musidorus and Pyrocles , two knights , which may startle * See " The Arcadia , " p . 267 ; eighth edition , 1633 . the reader , and may be condemned as very ...
... Arcadia . " There is something , indeed , in the language and the conduct of Musidorus and Pyrocles , two knights , which may startle * See " The Arcadia , " p . 267 ; eighth edition , 1633 . the reader , and may be condemned as very ...
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Strana 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Strana 197 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Strana 188 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o...
Strana 117 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes...
Strana 360 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Strana 12 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.
Strana 193 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Strana 334 - Learning," translated into Latin, but so enlarged as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not.
Strana 204 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Strana 158 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.