 WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after...  Blackwood's Magazine - Página 3501831Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...Fame. Eaeh ehange of many-eolour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existenee saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain. Dr. Johnson. Smit with the love of honour — or of penee — O'errun with wit, and destitute of sense,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 páginas
...the fashion, we perceive, to sneer at Samuel Johnson. But he had a soul that saw into Shakespeare's. How else could he have written these words ? — "...it shifts its hues, like the neck of a bird. So did Shakespeare in all his pictures. Then he was a scientific painter. For he was taught by Apollo. He... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 páginas
...have written these words? — " Each change of many-colour'd life he drew — Exhausted worlds, aud then imagined new. Existence saw him spurn her bounded...it shifts its hues, like the neck of a bird. So did Shakespeare in all his pictures. Then he was a scientific painter. For he was taught by Apollo. He... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 600 páginas
...o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose! Each change of many-eolour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined...bounded reign. And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisting passion stormed the breast." Algernon... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 622 páginas
...First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ! Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhansted worlds, and then imagined new. Existence saw him spurn...bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisting passion stormed the breast." Algernon... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 páginas
...its part among them. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain," &c. I hardly think the world in general confirms Mr. Fox's criticism of these lines. Mrs. Armstead,... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 392 páginas
...scythe, intimating that the works of Shakespeare will live for ever, referring to Johnson's lines : — " Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain." On the right was the malevolent deity, Discordia or Envy, in chains : at the top was Iris, or the rainbow,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 páginas
...the shrubs and flowers, and plays its part among them. Mrs. Armstead, when he returns fretted in an Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain," &c. I hardly think the world in general confirms Mr. Fox's criticism of these lines. evening, takes... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...Shakspere for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? MILTON. — On Shakspere, 1880. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted...reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. DR. JOHNSON. — Prologue 1747, Line 8, at the opening of Drury Lane. And he, the man whom Nature's... | |
 | 1893 - 728 páginas
...three favourites. WHO, WHEN, AND WHERE? SEARCH QUESTIONS. ANSWERS TO AUGUST QUESTIONS. 1. Shakespere. ' Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.' Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (SAMUEL JOHNSON). 2. Earl Leofric, in ' Godiva ' (LORD TENNYSON). 3-... | |
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