The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art: Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Science, & S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in the Years 1867 & 1868 |
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... Mercutio , Mercutio would have killed Romeo - he would have over- powered him . The nurse presents somewhat of the same kind of contrast to Juliet that Mercutio does to Romeo . But Juliet's character does not require so powerful a foil ...
... Mercutio , Mercutio would have killed Romeo - he would have over- powered him . The nurse presents somewhat of the same kind of contrast to Juliet that Mercutio does to Romeo . But Juliet's character does not require so powerful a foil ...
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... Mercutio . The Nurse is admirably drawn . She is a most correct specimen of the class to which she belongs ; not , indeed , altogether a favourable one , for she is both coarse and low - principled . These qualities , however , belong ...
... Mercutio . The Nurse is admirably drawn . She is a most correct specimen of the class to which she belongs ; not , indeed , altogether a favourable one , for she is both coarse and low - principled . These qualities , however , belong ...
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... Mercutio is essentially light - minded . He has not sufficient sense of the ills of life to be a real humourist ; but his volubility and high spirits will not allow us to be over critical as to the subject- matter of what he says ; he ...
... Mercutio is essentially light - minded . He has not sufficient sense of the ills of life to be a real humourist ; but his volubility and high spirits will not allow us to be over critical as to the subject- matter of what he says ; he ...
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Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 164 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 142 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 156 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 42 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Page 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Page 163 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.
Page 118 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 141 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart ; He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.