Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... performance could not have been concluded in less time than about two hours and a half , while few of the morals would re- quire more than about an hour for their representation . * The dramatis personæ are thirteen in all , nine male ...
... performance could not have been concluded in less time than about two hours and a half , while few of the morals would re- quire more than about an hour for their representation . * The dramatis personæ are thirteen in all , nine male ...
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... performance - the plot , if so it can be called , meagre to insipidity and silliness , the characters only a few slightly distinguished varieties of the lowest life , and the dialogue in general as feeble and undramatic as the merest ...
... performance - the plot , if so it can be called , meagre to insipidity and silliness , the characters only a few slightly distinguished varieties of the lowest life , and the dialogue in general as feeble and undramatic as the merest ...
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... performances written expressly for the court and for representation before select audiences , many years elapsed ... performance of Gor- boduc , it is recorded that another historical play , entitled Julius Cæsar , was acted at court ...
... performances written expressly for the court and for representation before select audiences , many years elapsed ... performance of Gor- boduc , it is recorded that another historical play , entitled Julius Cæsar , was acted at court ...
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... performance in the city , in the following year , theatrical performances are designated as interludes , tragedies , comedies , and shows ; including much more than the old miracle - plays , or more recent moral - plays , which would be ...
... performance in the city , in the following year , theatrical performances are designated as interludes , tragedies , comedies , and shows ; including much more than the old miracle - plays , or more recent moral - plays , which would be ...
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... performances in it , as has been remarked , are bad enough to countenance even those of his friend the inventor . But , besides that to change , as this system appears to have required , the entire pronunciation and musical character of ...
... performances in it , as has been remarked , are bad enough to countenance even those of his friend the inventor . But , besides that to change , as this system appears to have required , the entire pronunciation and musical character of ...
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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.