Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain: Dramatists, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837 |
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... truth , are ready to leap out of the win- dows to follow the hounds ! " The latter of these dramas , Palemon and Arcyte , we have not seen ; but Damon and Pythias is before us : and if we may estimate the author's pieces from it , we ...
... truth , are ready to leap out of the win- dows to follow the hounds ! " The latter of these dramas , Palemon and Arcyte , we have not seen ; but Damon and Pythias is before us : and if we may estimate the author's pieces from it , we ...
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... truth , ex- ceedeth all the terrors of my soul . Defer not ( with me ) till this last point of extremity ; for little knowest thou how in the end thou shalt be visited . ; " With thee I join young Juvenal , that biting satirist , that ...
... truth , ex- ceedeth all the terrors of my soul . Defer not ( with me ) till this last point of extremity ; for little knowest thou how in the end thou shalt be visited . ; " With thee I join young Juvenal , that biting satirist , that ...
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... truth is , he was deplorably ignorant ; and we are surprised , greatly surprised , that any university , much less both Oxford and Cambridge , should have honoured such a men with decree 40 " Master Greene was accused , probably with ...
... truth is , he was deplorably ignorant ; and we are surprised , greatly surprised , that any university , much less both Oxford and Cambridge , should have honoured such a men with decree 40 " Master Greene was accused , probably with ...
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... truth of character . At this period , indeed , character was not understood : the public mind was not instructed sufficiently to relish , or even to perceive , the critical niceties that separate the individual from the species ...
... truth of character . At this period , indeed , character was not understood : the public mind was not instructed sufficiently to relish , or even to perceive , the critical niceties that separate the individual from the species ...
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... truth and pathos of the most affecting kind . In general it is remarkably faithful to history . We can , however , spare no room for an analysis of it ; nor , as the works of Marlowe have been so recently published , need we.t Doctor ...
... truth and pathos of the most affecting kind . In general it is remarkably faithful to history . We can , however , spare no room for an analysis of it ; nor , as the works of Marlowe have been so recently published , need we.t Doctor ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Amintor appears Arethusa Beaumont Bellario Ben Jonson brother Cæsar called certainly character comedy Corb Corv court dare death Dorothea doth doubt drama dramatist earl English Evad Evadne eyes Face father favour Fletcher Friar genius give Gond Greene hand hath hear heart heaven Henry honour humour John John Heywood John Shakespear Jonson Julius Cæsar king lady language learning live London look lord Lover's Melancholy Macrinus madam Marlowe Massinger merit Mosca nature never noble observe Old Plays passion Philaster piece Plautus plot Plutarch poet poetry Porrex praise probably racters reader reason renegado repentance Robert Greene scene Sejanus Shakespear soul speak stage Stratford supposed sure sweet tell thee Theoph thing Thomas thou art tragedy translation truth unto verses Vitel Volp wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR woman writers written wrote
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Página 147 - 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.
Página 358 - The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief: The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Página 394 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 101 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Página 101 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 125 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Página 348 - In the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following: that is to say— First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 254 - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Página 33 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 85 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.