Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... hand in grave doth cover it , Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but , in the ground ylain , In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had ne'er into the world been brought . But who had seen him sobbing ...
... hand in grave doth cover it , Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but , in the ground ylain , In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had ne'er into the world been brought . But who had seen him sobbing ...
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... hand with Ralph Roister Doister , although it is interesting for some of the illus- trations which it affords of the manners of the time . One of the dramatis personæ , in particular , who is seldom absent from the stage , Cacurgus ...
... hand with Ralph Roister Doister , although it is interesting for some of the illus- trations which it affords of the manners of the time . One of the dramatis personæ , in particular , who is seldom absent from the stage , Cacurgus ...
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... hand to which we owe the Induc- tion to the Legend of the Duke of Buckingham in the Mirror for Magistrates . The piece has accordingly won much applause in quarters where there was little feeling of the true spirit of dramatic writing ...
... hand to which we owe the Induc- tion to the Legend of the Duke of Buckingham in the Mirror for Magistrates . The piece has accordingly won much applause in quarters where there was little feeling of the true spirit of dramatic writing ...
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... hand , in 1561 ; the fourth , the Edipus , by Alexander Nevyle , in 1563 ; the fifth and sixth , the Medea and the Agamem- non , by John Studley , in 1566. The Octavia , by Thomas Nuce , was entered on the Stationers ' Books in the same ...
... hand , in 1561 ; the fourth , the Edipus , by Alexander Nevyle , in 1563 ; the fifth and sixth , the Medea and the Agamem- non , by John Studley , in 1566. The Octavia , by Thomas Nuce , was entered on the Stationers ' Books in the same ...
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... hand might not have been the work of Kyd himself . Lamb says , " There is nothing in the undoubted plays of Jonson which would authorise us to suppose that he could have supplied the scenes in question . I should suspect the agency of ...
... hand might not have been the work of Kyd himself . Lamb says , " There is nothing in the undoubted plays of Jonson which would authorise us to suppose that he could have supplied the scenes in question . I should suspect the agency of ...
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afterwards ancient appears Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse called character Charles Collier comedy death Donne doth dramatic dramatists Dryden early earth edition eminent England English entitled Euphuist fair Fairy Queen fancy Fletcher Gammer Gurton's Needle genius Gorboduc grace Gresham College Harvey hath honour Iliad invention John Jonson King language Latin learned least lived London Long Parliament Lord Milton Mirror for Magistrates modern Musophilus natural never Novum Organum observes passages passion perhaps philosophy pieces plays poem poet poetical poetry printed probably produced prose published racter Ralph Roister Doister readers reign remarkable reprinted rhyme Robert Greene Royal Society satire says seventeenth century Shakspeare song specimen Spenser spirit style supposed thee things Thomas thou thought tion tragedy translation treatise truth unto volume Waller words writer written
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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.