Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, Volumen1E. Moxon, 1834 - 593 páginas |
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... periodical publications , and in the altera- tion of a few lines here and there , made for the most part with a view to consolidate the rhythm . LONDON , SEPTEMBER , 1834 . PREFACE . As this work , consisting of two Plays vi PREFACE .
... periodical publications , and in the altera- tion of a few lines here and there , made for the most part with a view to consolidate the rhythm . LONDON , SEPTEMBER , 1834 . PREFACE . As this work , consisting of two Plays vi PREFACE .
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... there may be readers who feel an inclination to learn . something of an author's tastes in poetry before they proceed to the perusal of what he has written , I will take the opportunity which a preface affords me of expressing my ...
... there may be readers who feel an inclination to learn . something of an author's tastes in poetry before they proceed to the perusal of what he has written , I will take the opportunity which a preface affords me of expressing my ...
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... there not ensued a want of adequate . appreciation for its intellectual and immortal part ? I confess , that such seems to me to have been both the actual and the natural result ; and I can hardly believe the public taste to have been ...
... there not ensued a want of adequate . appreciation for its intellectual and immortal part ? I confess , that such seems to me to have been both the actual and the natural result ; and I can hardly believe the public taste to have been ...
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... There is apparent in it a working and moulding spirit , with a want of material to work up , a great command of language , with a want of any views or reflections which , if unembellished by imagery , or unasso- ciated with passionate ...
... There is apparent in it a working and moulding spirit , with a want of material to work up , a great command of language , with a want of any views or reflections which , if unembellished by imagery , or unasso- ciated with passionate ...
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... There is no such thing as philosophi- cal misanthropy ; and if a misanthropical spirit , be it genuine or affected , be found to pervade a man's writings , that spirit may be poetical as far as it it goes , but being at fault in its ...
... There is no such thing as philosophi- cal misanthropy ; and if a misanthropical spirit , be it genuine or affected , be found to pervade a man's writings , that spirit may be poetical as far as it it goes , but being at fault in its ...
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Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, in Two Parts, Volumen1 Sir Henry Taylor Vista completa - 1835 |
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ADRIANA AESWYN amongst arms bailiff better blood BOSCH bring Bruges burgess BURGHERS CAPTAIN citizens CLARA crafts death door e'er Earl of Flanders Earl's EARL'S PALACE Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair FATHER JOHN fight FRANS ACKERMAN friends gates Ghent GILBERT MATTHEW give hand hath hear heard heart Heaven highness honour John Lyon knights lady Launoy live look Lord of Arlon Lord of Occo lov'd market-place Master Philip men at arms MERESTYN mind mounts the merry-go-round MUCK ne'er never NUITRE o'er pardon pass peace PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE poetry pray say'st SCENE shout SIR GUISEBERT GRUTT SIR ROBERT MARESCHAULT SIR SIMON BETTE SIR WALTER D'ARLON soul speak stand STEENSEL sword There's thine things thou hast Thou shalt thought town true truth Twas twere UKENHEIM VAN DEN BOSCH VAN MUCK VAN RYK wherefore whilst White-Hoods wilt word
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Página xl - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página xix - ... of masculine judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment of admiration, even if they did not provoke contempt. When the conduct and feelings attributed to them are reduced into prose, and brought to the test of a rational consideration, they must be perceived to be beings in whom there is no strength except that of their intensely selfish passions, — in whom all is vanity; their exertions being for vanity under the name of love or revenge, and their sufferings for vanity under the name of...
Página 171 - There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy, transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd.
Página 8 - In truth, To mould denial to a pleasing shape In all things, and most specially in love, Is a hard task ; alas ! I have not wit From such a sharp and waspish word as " no
Página 53 - tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, echoing my father's name ? Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. Oh ! my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ; For that reminds me of a debt of blood Descended with my patrimony to me, Whose paying off would clear...
Página xii - ... to turn what they saw to account. It did not belong to poetry, in their apprehension, to thread the mazes of life in all its classes and under all its circumstances, common as well as romantic, and, seeing all things, to infer and to instruct : on the contrary, it was to stand aloof from- everything that is plain and true ; to have little concern with what is rational or wise ; it was to be, like music, a moving and enchanting art, acting upon the fancy, the affections, the passions, but scarcely...
Página xiv - Yet this impulse is losing its force, and even Lord Byron himself repudiated, in the latter years of his life, the poetical taste which he had espoused and propagated. The constitution of this writer's mind is not difficult to understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. Had he united a philosophical intellect to his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably have been the greatest poet of his age.
Página 133 - Of your ill fortunes, telling on their fingers The worthy leaders ye have lately lost. True, they were worthy men, most gallant chiefs ; And ill would it become us to make light Of the great loss we suffer by their fall. They died like heroes ; for no recreant step Had e'er dishonour'd them, no stain of fear, No base despair, no cowardly recoil.
Página 135 - Sirs ! look round you lest ye be deceived ; Forgiveness may be spoken with the tongue, Forgiveness may be written with the pen, But think not that the parchment and mouth pardon Will e'er eject old hatreds from the heart. There's that betwixt you been which men remember Till they forget themselves, till all's forgot, Till the deep sleep falls on them in that bed From which no morrow's mischief knocks them up.
Página 41 - Whose story is a fragment, known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally of the singular few, Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will,...