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70 Minor Elizabethan Poetry . . . . . . . . 127 Warner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Daniel . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 142 Drayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Sylvester . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Chapman
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 383 & 53 Harington.—Fairfax.-Fanshawe . . . . . . Drummond ...
70 Minor Elizabethan Poetry . . . . . . . . 127 Warner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Daniel . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 142 Drayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Sylvester . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Chapman
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 383 & 53 Harington.—Fairfax.-Fanshawe . . . . . . Drummond ...
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The Mirror for Magistrates, however, for all its many authors, is of note in the
history of our poetry for very little else which it contains, except the portions
contributed by its contriver Sackville, consisting only of one legend, that of Henry,
Duke of ...
The Mirror for Magistrates, however, for all its many authors, is of note in the
history of our poetry for very little else which it contains, except the portions
contributed by its contriver Sackville, consisting only of one legend, that of Henry,
Duke of ...
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spirit of light and life, that we have in Spenser and Shakspeare, there is little in
Sackville; his poetry—ponderous, gloomy, and monotonous—is still oppressed
by the shadows of night; and we see that, although the darkness is retiring, the
sun ...
spirit of light and life, that we have in Spenser and Shakspeare, there is little in
Sackville; his poetry—ponderous, gloomy, and monotonous—is still oppressed
by the shadows of night; and we see that, although the darkness is retiring, the
sun ...
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London, 1841; and the “Chester Mysteries,' for the same Society, under the care
of Thomas Wright, Esq., vol. i. 8vo. London, 1843. + Hist of Dramatic Poetry, ii.
413. INTERLUDES OF JOHN HEYWOOD. Meanwhile, long before the earliest of
...
London, 1841; and the “Chester Mysteries,' for the same Society, under the care
of Thomas Wright, Esq., vol. i. 8vo. London, 1843. + Hist of Dramatic Poetry, ii.
413. INTERLUDES OF JOHN HEYWOOD. Meanwhile, long before the earliest of
...
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... was gone); but the play is mentioned in Thomas Wilson's 'Rule of Reason,' first
printed in 1551, and other considerations make it probable that it may have been
written some fifteen or twenty years before..t * Hist. of Dramatic Poetry, ii. 386.
... was gone); but the play is mentioned in Thomas Wilson's 'Rule of Reason,' first
printed in 1551, and other considerations make it probable that it may have been
written some fifteen or twenty years before..t * Hist. of Dramatic Poetry, ii. 386.
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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.
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| 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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