Webster : (1) John (c.1580-1625), English playwright whose The White Devil & The Duchess of Malfi, are said to be the greatest English tragedies outside Shakespeare. (2) Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer known for American Spelling Book (1783) & American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
... his ireful brows! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! The minor Elizabethans have also a transcendent piercingness at times, as Webster with Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young - or, less subtly yet at the end no less effectively, with I have lived Riotously ill, like some that live in Court, And... full of smiles, Have felt the maze of conscience in my breast. Oft gay and honoured robes their tortures try: We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry. Page 74 Webster can also mate the piercing with the picturesque: I am acquainted with sad misery As the tanned galley-slave is with his oar. Ford is sometimes Webster's equal in both poetic and dramatic ...
... foils it provides for etching out all the more vividly the chief characters and events. But this is so on account of the surprising way his people become real to us on a life-breath of word-music. Webster is often almost as good in pure dramatic construction, but his poetry except in a small number of half-scenes and scattered sentences contains no masterful grace of rhythmic expression: he does not ...
... revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasized that such a revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social. 46 . Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934), an English clergyman, author, clairvoyant and prominent member of the Theosophical Society. 47 . Annie Besant (1847-1933), a prominent Theosophist, women’s rights ...
... of this world, incredible), fantastic (grotesque, whimsical, fanciful), made-up, invented, feigning invention, fiction conventionally accepted as falsehood, story-telling as a branch of literature. Webster: Fiction is a creation of imagination, and does not necessarily imply an intent to deceive, fiction is the opposite of fact, a term strictly applied to, in literature, to any form of story, whether ...
... Aurobindo improve his Bengali, recalls with enthusiasm the deluxe edition of the Arabian Nights. "Never before had I seen such a voluminous edition of the Arabian Nights, it was like a sixteen-volume Webster 1 And with innumerable illustrations." As for Dr. F. W. Walker, among all the boys of exceptional promise whom he had taught, he put A. A. Ghose above them all. B. C. Pal, in his Character Sketches ...
... to conceive and execute them. The elegances of the Epistle, with its graceful rephrasing of outworn classical images and its stately love-conceits is out of place where the volcanic sheerness of a Webster could alone have been appropriate. Nevertheless the passage in which Tara complains of the unclean love she cannot avoid or control is not without a noble dignity of passion; and shows with what charm ...
... that there is such a thing as legitimate patriotism. We have looked up the dictionaries to profit by the enlightenment so kindly vouchsafed to us, but we have failed in our efforts. According to Webster, patriotism covers all activities to zealously guard the authority and interests of one's country and we are at a loss to understand how what the Indians have hitherto done or proposed to do to ensure ...
... “dikè,” which means justice. “Theodicy” could therefore be defined as “the justification of divine providence in view of the existence of evil and suffering in the world.” According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary the meaning is “defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil.” The definition in the Encyclopaedia Britannica is “explanation of why a perfectly good ...
... we used it for more than two persons, yet all lexicons larger than pocket ones will spring a surprise on us with an extended application of it. Thus Volume I, p. 258, col. 1 of the authoritative Webster which I have already quoted records from no less a writer than Cyril Connolly the phrase: "both a musician, an archaeologist, and an anti-Fascist." However, we Indians have to be on guard ...
... atoned for by any great wealth of poetry, for their verse has more often some formal merit and a great air of poetry than its essence,—though there are exceptions as in lines and passages of Peele and Webster. The presentation of life with some surface poetic touch but without any transforming vision or strongly suffusing power in the poetic temperament is the general character of their work. It is necessary ...
... Milton's life-span - 1608-1674 - to realise how much poetic writing had gone before. Not only had Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson worked on English poetry; Chapman, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Marston, Massinger, Shirley, Heywood, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Campion - all these were born fairly before him. Abundant development had preceded him in prose also, starting with Bacon and Raleigh ...
... first greatly derided by the critics; they freed it from the traditions of a dead classicism and provided their followers with a new method of rendering qualities of atmosphere and of light. (Webster's Unified Dictionary and Encyclopedia 4, K-Pend, p. 1126) 1985-06-02 After seeing the vision Champaklal was told that this had been Claude Monet's favourite tree, which he had drawn in ...
... sensation prevails among the Elizabethans, ranging through styles that can be distinguished one from another — Marlowe's explosive energy, Chapman's violent impetuousness, Shakespeare's passionate sweep, Webster's quivering outbreak. But beside Milton, however, they all seem kin and offer a contrast to the no less powerful yet more purely reflective or ideative voice heard in Paradise Lost. A contrast by plane ...
... t beat on the final syllable of most of the feet: all the variations are different from each other, none predominates so as to oust and supplant the iamb in its possession of the metric base. In Webster's line this forceful irregularity is used with a remarkable skill and freedom; the two first feet are combined in a choriamb to bring out a vehemence of swift and abrupt unexpressed emotion; in the ...
... her that she wrote, 'Animists believe that the divine is to be found in every living thing...' "Finally, in addition to my early citation from the Random House Dictionary, let me quote Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language: 'Divine - often cap: something having the qualities and attributes of an ultimate reality that is regarded as sacred.' The example given is: ...
... its own right metrical length on the syllable in which it occurs; even an extreme shortness of the vowel does not take away the lengthening force given. To the ear it stands out that the feet in Webster's line, are, quantitatively, bacchius 2 and spondee; the one is not and cannot be a true anapaest, as it would or can be accounted by convention in accentual scansion, the other is not and cannot ...
... is no reason why a less thumbed variety should not be exploited. In fact, such a variety does intrude itself with significant force in several lines among the Elizabethans. The most celebrated is Webster's This revealing of abrupt surcharged unexpressed emotion by an unusual foot, a bacchius, is almost rivalled in Marlowe's note of dread by means of a cretic (/X/): ...
... elision of the e in "the") and a medial anapaest of this kind are, it seems to me, permissible even in fairly regular pentameters. And what of Shakespeare's freedoms in blank verse or Swinburne's or Webster's famous line I only read A. E.'s poetry once and had no time to form a reliable impression; but I seem to remember a too regular and obvious rhythm, not sufficiently plastic, which did not ...
... Vikrama Commemoration Volume (Ujjain, 1948) Watters, T., Hiuen Tsang (London, 1904-05) Weber, A., A History of Indian Literature, 2nd Ed., (London, 1882) Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1955 Page 619 Whithead, R. B., In Numismatic Chronicle, Sixth Chronicle, Sixth Series, III Wilson, H. H., ...
... sixteen volumes, which I later saw in his study. I had never seen such a voluminous edition of that book - it dwarfed even the Mahabharata in bulk, looking, as it did, like sixteen volumes of the Webster's Dictionary. It had innumerable pictures in it.... "Before I met Aurobindo, I had formed an image of him somewhat like this: a stalwart figure, dressed from head to foot in immaculate European ...
... said to have been "very probably brought to India by traders several years after they had been prepared in Rome". Vidyabhūsana postulates "traders" because, according to him, "it is almost 1. Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language (1956), p. 697, col. 2. 2. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1906, p. 1. Page 451 certain that Rome did not attempt ...
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