Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... doubt as correct as usual . But , whatever may have been Ritson's correctness in matters of mere transcription , it is proper to note that in the present case he merely offers a conjecture ; so that we are left to depend , not upon his ...
... doubt as correct as usual . But , whatever may have been Ritson's correctness in matters of mere transcription , it is proper to note that in the present case he merely offers a conjecture ; so that we are left to depend , not upon his ...
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... doubt were mostly the same that were exhibited in the common playhouses , it appears probable that , out of fifty - two , about eighteen were founded upon subjects of ancient history or fable ; twenty - one upon modern history ...
... doubt were mostly the same that were exhibited in the common playhouses , it appears probable that , out of fifty - two , about eighteen were founded upon subjects of ancient history or fable ; twenty - one upon modern history ...
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... doubt if there are three lines together in any of his plays that could be mistaken for Shakespeare's .... The versification of Peele is much inferior to that of Mar- low ; and , though sometimes poetical , he seems rarely dra- matic ...
... doubt if there are three lines together in any of his plays that could be mistaken for Shakespeare's .... The versification of Peele is much inferior to that of Mar- low ; and , though sometimes poetical , he seems rarely dra- matic ...
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... doubt as to his claims to the authorship of by far the most striking passages in the Spanish Tragedy , the best of his two plays . Lamb , quoting the scenes in question , de- scribes them as " the very salt of the old play , " which ...
... doubt as to his claims to the authorship of by far the most striking passages in the Spanish Tragedy , the best of his two plays . Lamb , quoting the scenes in question , de- scribes them as " the very salt of the old play , " which ...
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... fantasms , such insociable and point - device companions ; such rackers of orthography as to speak dout , fine , when he should say doubt ; det , when he should pronounce debt , d , e , b , t ; 56 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... fantasms , such insociable and point - device companions ; such rackers of orthography as to speak dout , fine , when he should say doubt ; det , when he should pronounce debt , d , e , b , t ; 56 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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.