Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an essay on the life of the author, by R.C. Trench |
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... truth the prodigal ex- penditure of the court of Philip the Fourth upon its pride and its pleasures seems to have known no stint and no limits . One might suppose that it would have sometimes been a little restrained by a sense of shame ...
... truth the prodigal ex- penditure of the court of Philip the Fourth upon its pride and its pleasures seems to have known no stint and no limits . One might suppose that it would have sometimes been a little restrained by a sense of shame ...
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... truth . Yet here it will be only just to remember that in many accomplishments Philip the Fourth was eminent . What his merits as a poet were may be doubtful ; but he certainly wrote his own language purely and well ; he possessed ...
... truth . Yet here it will be only just to remember that in many accomplishments Philip the Fourth was eminent . What his merits as a poet were may be doubtful ; but he certainly wrote his own language purely and well ; he possessed ...
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... of Civita Vecchia , a famous Italian bandit , Gasparoni , who , having committed two hundred murders , had yet never committed one upon a Friday . highest truth , it could not have been otherwise . 70 [ CH . THE GENIUS OF CALDERON .
... of Civita Vecchia , a famous Italian bandit , Gasparoni , who , having committed two hundred murders , had yet never committed one upon a Friday . highest truth , it could not have been otherwise . 70 [ CH . THE GENIUS OF CALDERON .
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... truth and reason ? If poetry be anything but a brainsick dream , to bewail the vanishing of ought which , even while we bewail , we know to have been wholly or partially untrue , is con- tradictory and idle . Are we not bound by every ...
... truth and reason ? If poetry be anything but a brainsick dream , to bewail the vanishing of ought which , even while we bewail , we know to have been wholly or partially untrue , is con- tradictory and idle . Are we not bound by every ...
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... truth , is yet too strongly put . In Shakespeare , again , where everything is wonderful , there is yet perhaps nothing more wonderful than the way in which characters * Quarterly Review , vol . 25. p . 3 , The Spanish Drama . grow ...
... truth , is yet too strongly put . In Shakespeare , again , where everything is wonderful , there is yet perhaps nothing more wonderful than the way in which characters * Quarterly Review , vol . 25. p . 3 , The Spanish Drama . grow ...
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Página 2 - The New Cratylus; Contributions towards a more accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language.
Página 103 - Tis true that, where ever I have liked any story in a romance, novel, or foreign play, I have made no difficulty, nor ever shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say it has lost nothing in my hands...
Página 221 - ¡Tanto se emprende en término de un dia! A florecer las rosas madrugaron, Y para envejecerse florecieron: Cuna y sepulcro en un boton hallaron. Tales los hombres sus fortunas vieron: En un dia nacieron y espiraron; Que pasados los siglos, horas fuéron.
Página 225 - Literature of the Church of England; Specimens of the Writings of Eminent Divines, with Memoirs of their Lives and Times. By R.
Página 228 - With Illustrative Selections from the Works of Lloyd, Cotton, Brooke, Darwin, and Hayley. With Notes and Memoirs, containing unpublished Letters of Cowper.
Página 221 - Estas, que fueron pompa y alegría Despertando al albor de la mañana, A la tarde serán lástima vana, Durmiendo en brazos de la noche fría. Este matiz, que al cielo desafía, Iris listado de oro, nieve y grana, Será escarmiento de la vida humana: ¡Tanto se emprende en término de un día!
Página 2 - Varronianus. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of Ancient Italy, and to the Philological Study of the Latin Language. By the late JW DONALDSON, DD Third Edition, revised and considerably enlarged. 8vo. 16*.
Página 92 - Copacdbana. not be drawing down the sacred into the region of the profane, but elevating that which had been profaned into its own proper region and place. These legends of heathen antiquity supply the allegorical substratum for several of his autos* Now it is The True God Pan, or Perseus rescuing Andromeda, or Theseus destroying the Labyrinth, or Ulysses defying the enchantments of Circe, or the exquisite mythus of Cupid and Psyche. Each in turn supplies him with some new poetical aspect under which...
Página 155 - ... idos, sombras, que fingís hoy a mis sentidos muertos cuerpo y voz, siendo verdad que ni tenéis voz ni cuerpo; que no quiero majestades fingidas, pompas no quiero fantásticas, ilusiones que al soplo menos ligero del aura han de deshacerse, bien como el florido almendro, que por madrugar sus flores, sin aviso y sin consejo, al primer soplo se apagan, marchitando y desluciendo de sus rosados capillos belleza, luz y ornamento.