Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... king had great delight in his pastimes . " . " ' * Baldwynne and Ferrers called other writers to their assistance , among whom were Thomas Church- yard , Phair , the translator of Virgil , & c .; and the book , in its first form and ...
... king had great delight in his pastimes . " . " ' * Baldwynne and Ferrers called other writers to their assistance , among whom were Thomas Church- yard , Phair , the translator of Virgil , & c .; and the book , in its first form and ...
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... King John himself , Pope Innocent , Cardinal Pan- dulphus , Stephen Langton , and other historical figures moving about in odd intermixture with such mere notional spectres as the Widowed Britannia , Imperial Majesty , No- bility ...
... King John himself , Pope Innocent , Cardinal Pan- dulphus , Stephen Langton , and other historical figures moving about in odd intermixture with such mere notional spectres as the Widowed Britannia , Imperial Majesty , No- bility ...
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... King and Queen in Hamlet by such a prefigurative dumb show . Another expedient , which Shakspeare has also on two occasions made use of , namely , the assistance of a chorus , is also adopted in Gorboduc ; but rather by way of mere ...
... King and Queen in Hamlet by such a prefigurative dumb show . Another expedient , which Shakspeare has also on two occasions made use of , namely , the assistance of a chorus , is also adopted in Gorboduc ; but rather by way of mere ...
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... King of Persia , which is a mixture of moral and history , a lamentable tragedy full of pleasant mirth " on the title - page , and in the running title " A Comedie of King Cambises . " Another play of about the same date , and of ...
... King of Persia , which is a mixture of moral and history , a lamentable tragedy full of pleasant mirth " on the title - page , and in the running title " A Comedie of King Cambises . " Another play of about the same date , and of ...
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... Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. , ' printed for the Shake- speare Society . 8vo . Lond . 1842. Some items in Mr. Col- two dramatic productions , " Mr. Collier observes , " 38 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. , ' printed for the Shake- speare Society . 8vo . Lond . 1842. Some items in Mr. Col- two dramatic productions , " Mr. Collier observes , " 38 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Página 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...
Página 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.