Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... poets of his country and of the world . Gorboduc , accordingly , is a most unaffecting and un- interesting tragedy ; as would also be the noblest book of the Fairy Queen , or of Paradise Lost - the portion of either poem that soars the ...
... poets of his country and of the world . Gorboduc , accordingly , is a most unaffecting and un- interesting tragedy ; as would also be the noblest book of the Fairy Queen , or of Paradise Lost - the portion of either poem that soars the ...
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... poem upon that subject printed in 1562 , that he had seen " the same argument lately set forth on the stage . " But whe- ther this was a regular tragedy , or only a moral - play , we have no data for conjecturing . " From about this ...
... poem upon that subject printed in 1562 , that he had seen " the same argument lately set forth on the stage . " But whe- ther this was a regular tragedy , or only a moral - play , we have no data for conjecturing . " From about this ...
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... poem , because as he has himself expressly told us in his dedication of the Paradise to Cane della Scala , Prince of Verona - the story , although it began sadly , ended prosperously . Even the narratives in the Mir- ror for Magistrates ...
... poem , because as he has himself expressly told us in his dedication of the Paradise to Cane della Scala , Prince of Verona - the story , although it began sadly , ended prosperously . Even the narratives in the Mir- ror for Magistrates ...
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... poets ; they added whole scenes and choruses wherever they thought them neces- sary . " But Heywood and his ... poetic talent ; and the versification throughout the piece , both in the old metre ( in which the choral passages are written ) ...
... poets ; they added whole scenes and choruses wherever they thought them neces- sary . " But Heywood and his ... poetic talent ; and the versification throughout the piece , both in the old metre ( in which the choral passages are written ) ...
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... poems in 1587 , it was thought necessary to affix marginal explanations of many words , not long before in common ... poets , that pester the world either with idle vanities or odious villanies . - Patagons , SECOND STAGE OF THE REGULAR ...
... poems in 1587 , it was thought necessary to affix marginal explanations of many words , not long before in common ... poets , that pester the world either with idle vanities or odious villanies . - Patagons , SECOND STAGE OF THE REGULAR ...
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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.