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Gorboduc, accordingly, is a most unaffecting and uninteresting tragedy; as would
also be the noblest book of the Fairy Queen, or of Paradise Lost—the portion of
either poem that soars the highest—if it were to be attempted to be transformed ...
Gorboduc, accordingly, is a most unaffecting and uninteresting tragedy; as would
also be the noblest book of the Fairy Queen, or of Paradise Lost—the portion of
either poem that soars the highest—if it were to be attempted to be transformed ...
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... founded on the story of Romeo and Juliet; as is inferred from the assertion of
Arthur Brooke, in an advertisement prefixed to his poem upon that subject printed
in 1562, that he had seen “the same argument lately set forth on the stage.
... founded on the story of Romeo and Juliet; as is inferred from the assertion of
Arthur Brooke, in an advertisement prefixed to his poem upon that subject printed
in 1562, that he had seen “the same argument lately set forth on the stage.
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The most illustrious instance of such a use of the term comedy is its employment
by Dante for the title of his great poem, because—as he has himself expressly
told us in his dedication of the Paradise to Cane della Scala, Prince of Verona—
the ...
The most illustrious instance of such a use of the term comedy is its employment
by Dante for the title of his great poem, because—as he has himself expressly
told us in his dedication of the Paradise to Cane della Scala, Prince of Verona—
the ...
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He has himself commenorated the place of his birth: “At length,” he says in his '
Prothalamion,' or poem on the marriages of the two daughters of the Earl of
Worcester, At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most
kindly ...
He has himself commenorated the place of his birth: “At length,” he says in his '
Prothalamion,' or poem on the marriages of the two daughters of the Earl of
Worcester, At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most
kindly ...
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He also speaks of another work which he calls his 'Stemmata Dudleiana,'
probably a poem in honour of the family of his patron, the Earl of Leicester, uncle
of Sir Philip Sidney, of which he says that it must not lightly be sent abroad
without ...
He also speaks of another work which he calls his 'Stemmata Dudleiana,'
probably a poem in honour of the family of his patron, the Earl of Leicester, uncle
of Sir Philip Sidney, of which he says that it must not lightly be sent abroad
without ...
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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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volumes 3-4 Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, George Lillie Craik |
| Autor | George Lillie Craik |
| Editora | C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
| Original de | Universidade da Califórnia |
| Digitalizado | 28 Nov 2007 |
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