Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... the Mirror for Magistrates , in 2 ( some- times divided into 3 ) vols . 4to . , was brought out by the late Mr. Hazlewood in 1815 . monument , or cairn , to which every man added 12 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... the Mirror for Magistrates , in 2 ( some- times divided into 3 ) vols . 4to . , was brought out by the late Mr. Hazlewood in 1815 . monument , or cairn , to which every man added 12 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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... , picturesque , and melo- dious language , nothing equal or approaching to which had till now been seen in our poetry , except only in Chaucer and he can scarcely be said to have written 14 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... , picturesque , and melo- dious language , nothing equal or approaching to which had till now been seen in our poetry , except only in Chaucer and he can scarcely be said to have written 14 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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... said to be the joint produc- tion of Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene , * the last of By Edward Phillips , in his Theatrum Poetarum , ' 1675 . whom died in 1592. The only three manuscripts of the 18 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... said to be the joint produc- tion of Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene , * the last of By Edward Phillips , in his Theatrum Poetarum , ' 1675 . whom died in 1592. The only three manuscripts of the 18 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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... and even stage - plays , but to which the terms tragedies and come- dies , found in both instruments , could not be so properly Hist . Dram . Poet . ii . 415 . " " # applicable . " We may add , 36 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... and even stage - plays , but to which the terms tragedies and come- dies , found in both instruments , could not be so properly Hist . Dram . Poet . ii . 415 . " " # applicable . " We may add , 36 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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... plays having by the year 1592 gone out of fashion even on the public stage , Wilmot's reviving and polishing consisted Hist . of Eng . Poet . iv . 110 . chiefly in cutting off many of the " tags to 40 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... plays having by the year 1592 gone out of fashion even on the public stage , Wilmot's reviving and polishing consisted Hist . of Eng . Poet . iv . 110 . chiefly in cutting off many of the " tags to 40 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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Seite 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Seite 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Seite 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Seite 105 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Seite 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Seite 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Seite 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 77 - 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. Shakespeare...
Seite 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Seite 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.