University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 61W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1863 - Ireland |
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... side idolatry , as much as any , " and to whom he yielded the palm , eulogizing him as " surpassing all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome sent forth , " was a mere ordinary impostor , incapable of writing the plays he allowed to be ...
... side idolatry , as much as any , " and to whom he yielded the palm , eulogizing him as " surpassing all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome sent forth , " was a mere ordinary impostor , incapable of writing the plays he allowed to be ...
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... side , and the men evince a tendency to lie down . Before we start from Yo - chow , we may also direct the reader's attention to Mr. Forrest's graphic sketch of the palace of Hung - tsiu - tsuen the rebel chief , in Nanking , or rather ...
... side , and the men evince a tendency to lie down . Before we start from Yo - chow , we may also direct the reader's attention to Mr. Forrest's graphic sketch of the palace of Hung - tsiu - tsuen the rebel chief , in Nanking , or rather ...
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... side into the river . As he struggled to the brink and crawled up , the mob around shouted and cheered , quite enjoying the joke at the expense of the imperial brave , This was very amusing , but it made the prospect 28 [ Jan. The Yang ...
... side into the river . As he struggled to the brink and crawled up , the mob around shouted and cheered , quite enjoying the joke at the expense of the imperial brave , This was very amusing , but it made the prospect 28 [ Jan. The Yang ...
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... side of the Taepings , absolutely refused to allow them to reside within their walls . The junk - men were proof against all entreaties to push on . One night , while they lay in the river , a deafen- ing clamour arose about the town ...
... side of the Taepings , absolutely refused to allow them to reside within their walls . The junk - men were proof against all entreaties to push on . One night , while they lay in the river , a deafen- ing clamour arose about the town ...
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... sides and left the river communica- tion open , the Taepings inside were not at all distressed . But now after nine years of this considerate warfare a fleet of junks came up the river and eut off the supplies . The people in- side ...
... sides and left the river communica- tion open , the Taepings inside were not at all distressed . But now after nine years of this considerate warfare a fleet of junks came up the river and eut off the supplies . The people in- side ...
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Page 7 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 7 - ... (before) you were abused with diverse stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them: even those are now offered to your view cured, and perfect of their limbs ; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them.
Page 65 - I can never be yours, for I verily believe I have not long to live — but I have left you every shilling of my fortune ;" — upon that she showed me her will — this generosity overpowered me.
Page 163 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 8 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 160 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth...
Page 4 - I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk ? and speak parrot ? and squabble ? swagger ? swear ? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?
Page 7 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 25 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 160 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, (For Christian service, and true chivalry,) As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son...