Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... expression . In his own world of the sombre and sad , also , he is almost as great an in- ventor as he is a colourist ; and Spenser has been indebted to him for many hints , as well as for example and inspira- tion in a general sense ...
... expression . In his own world of the sombre and sad , also , he is almost as great an in- ventor as he is a colourist ; and Spenser has been indebted to him for many hints , as well as for example and inspira- tion in a general sense ...
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... expression , which is the more astounding when we consider that the piece was the production , in all probability , of a clergyman at least , if not of one who afterwards became a bishop , and that it was certainly represented before a ...
... expression , which is the more astounding when we consider that the piece was the production , in all probability , of a clergyman at least , if not of one who afterwards became a bishop , and that it was certainly represented before a ...
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... expression , and monotonous respectability of sentiment , to fill the ear , and tranquillize rather than excite and disturb the mind . Sir Philip Sidney , while he finds fault with Gor- boduc for its violation of the unities of time and ...
... expression , and monotonous respectability of sentiment , to fill the ear , and tranquillize rather than excite and disturb the mind . Sir Philip Sidney , while he finds fault with Gor- boduc for its violation of the unities of time and ...
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... expression , and in the flow of his blank verse , he is not to be placed below Peele . But Greene's most characteristic attribute is his turn for merriment , of which Peele in his dramatic productions shows little or nothing . His ...
... expression , and in the flow of his blank verse , he is not to be placed below Peele . But Greene's most characteristic attribute is his turn for merriment , of which Peele in his dramatic productions shows little or nothing . His ...
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... expression and the thought . Although Lyly , in his verse as well as in his prose , is always artificial to excess , his ingenuity and finished elegance are frequently very captivating . Perhaps , indeed , our language is , after all ...
... expression and the thought . Although Lyly , in his verse as well as in his prose , is always artificial to excess , his ingenuity and finished elegance are frequently very captivating . Perhaps , indeed , our language is , after all ...
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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.