Miscellaneous Writings of John Conington: Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford, Volume 1Longmans, Green & Company, 1872 |
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... King Lear ' in a variorum Shakspere . I bought a copy a year ago , not wishing to be ignorant of what the various commentators have said , but it is weary work , wearier than any good commentary on a classical author . Your plan of ...
... King Lear ' in a variorum Shakspere . I bought a copy a year ago , not wishing to be ignorant of what the various commentators have said , but it is weary work , wearier than any good commentary on a classical author . Your plan of ...
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... kings are for the most part repre- sented . Some notion is given to us of what they were historically ; but we do not see their statues , or , if we do , the marks of likeness are generally commonplace . What conception of sculptured ...
... kings are for the most part repre- sented . Some notion is given to us of what they were historically ; but we do not see their statues , or , if we do , the marks of likeness are generally commonplace . What conception of sculptured ...
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... kings and heroes , who are called their images on earth ' ? The contrasted picture of the meaner souls is striking , but perhaps too satirically ingenious for elegy ; the image of the sepulchral lamps is spoiled by the less appropriate ...
... kings and heroes , who are called their images on earth ' ? The contrasted picture of the meaner souls is striking , but perhaps too satirically ingenious for elegy ; the image of the sepulchral lamps is spoiled by the less appropriate ...
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... kings , and heroes , and of mighty deeds , ' in language which , in its calm majestic flow , unhasting , unresting , carries them on as irresistibly as Homer's own could do , were they born readers of Greek ; and their minds are filled ...
... kings , and heroes , and of mighty deeds , ' in language which , in its calm majestic flow , unhasting , unresting , carries them on as irresistibly as Homer's own could do , were they born readers of Greek ; and their minds are filled ...
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... king , without a ransom paid , To her own Chrysa send the black - eyed maid . - Pope . Black choler boiling in his manly breast . - Maynwaring . Black choler filled his breast that boiled with ire . - Pope . Maynwaring intervened ...
... king , without a ransom paid , To her own Chrysa send the black - eyed maid . - Pope . Black choler boiling in his manly breast . - Maynwaring . Black choler filled his breast that boiled with ire . - Pope . Maynwaring intervened ...
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Page 81 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 86 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 83 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 128 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 97 - Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness...
Page 94 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 132 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 113 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee...
Page 99 - Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?
Page 84 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both. That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...