The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: The old English dramatists. 1895Houghton, Mifflin, 1895 |
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... pleasure , if with more dis- crimination . But when I was confronted with the question what I could say of them that would in- terest any rational person , after all that had been said by Lamb , the most sympathetic of critics , by ...
... pleasure , if with more dis- crimination . But when I was confronted with the question what I could say of them that would in- terest any rational person , after all that had been said by Lamb , the most sympathetic of critics , by ...
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... pleasure for its delicate beauty , like “ Aucassin and Nicolete , " or for its downright vigor , like the " Song of Roland , " or for its genuine humor , like " Renard the Fox . " There is even one French Miracle Play of the thir ...
... pleasure for its delicate beauty , like “ Aucassin and Nicolete , " or for its downright vigor , like the " Song of Roland , " or for its genuine humor , like " Renard the Fox . " There is even one French Miracle Play of the thir ...
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... depart , My saint is sure of mine unspotted heart . " There is a pensiveness in this , half pleasurable , half melancholy , that has a charm of its own . Thomas Dekker is a far more important person . Most 20 THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS.
... depart , My saint is sure of mine unspotted heart . " There is a pensiveness in this , half pleasurable , half melancholy , that has a charm of its own . Thomas Dekker is a far more important person . Most 20 THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS.
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... pleasures of the intel- lect that he returns . It is when the good and evil spirits come to him for the second time ... pleasure conquered deep despair . Have I not made blind Homer sing to me Of Alexander's love and Enon's death ? And ...
... pleasures of the intel- lect that he returns . It is when the good and evil spirits come to him for the second time ... pleasure conquered deep despair . Have I not made blind Homer sing to me Of Alexander's love and Enon's death ? And ...
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... pleasure . Like Bacon , again , he twice confesses his guilt before sentence is passed on him , and throws himself on the King's mercy : - " Hear me , great Judges ; if you have not lost For my sake all your charities , I beseech you ...
... pleasure . Like Bacon , again , he twice confesses his guilt before sentence is passed on him , and throws himself on the King's mercy : - " Hear me , great Judges ; if you have not lost For my sake all your charities , I beseech you ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Arethusa Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Bellario Ben Jonson Brachiano Bussy d'Ambois Cæsar called Chapman character Charles Lamb charm coarse comedies Contarino delight doth dramatic Dryden Duchess of Malfi fancy Faustus feel fine madness Flamineo fond genius gilt top give half calf hand hath Heaven hell Hero and Leander Homer honor humor Iliad imagination Jew of Malta Jolenta Jonson King Lady language Leonora less literature live Lucifer Marlowe Marlowe's Massinger Massinger's Mephistophilis mind nature never noble Old English Dramatists passage passion pathos perhaps Philaster PHILIP MASSINGER phrase play pleasure plot poem poet poetical poetry Romelio scene seems sense sentiment Shakespeare song Song of Roland soul speaking speech Spenser spirit stage style suppose sure sweet Tamburlaine theatre thee things thou thought tion tongue tragedy translation true verse Vittoria Webster words wrote youth Zanche
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 17 - With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 39 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can...
Seite 42 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Seite 53 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Seite 96 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is: there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Seite 51 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Seite 54 - Oh, no end is limited to damned souls ! Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal that thou hast ? Ah, Pythagoras...
Seite 49 - Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Seite 37 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be...