Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... says Baldwynne , in his Dedication " To the Nobility " of a subsequent and en- larged edition of it in 1563 , was begun and part of it printed in Queen Mary's time , but hindered by the Lord 66 * " On Monday the 4th of January , " the ...
... says Baldwynne , in his Dedication " To the Nobility " of a subsequent and en- larged edition of it in 1563 , was begun and part of it printed in Queen Mary's time , but hindered by the Lord 66 * " On Monday the 4th of January , " the ...
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... say : Alas , I , wretch , whom thus thou see'st distrained , With wasting woes that never shall aslake , SORROW I am ; in endless torments pained Among the Furies in the infernal lake ; Where Pluto , God of Hell , so grisly blake , Doth ...
... say : Alas , I , wretch , whom thus thou see'st distrained , With wasting woes that never shall aslake , SORROW I am ; in endless torments pained Among the Furies in the infernal lake ; Where Pluto , God of Hell , so grisly blake , Doth ...
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... says , " almost form a class by themselves : they are neither miracle - plays nor moral - plays , but what may be properly and strictly called interludes , a species of writing of which he has a claim to be considered the inventor , al ...
... says , " almost form a class by themselves : they are neither miracle - plays nor moral - plays , but what may be properly and strictly called interludes , a species of writing of which he has a claim to be considered the inventor , al ...
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... says that it was written and first printed in 1551. * Wright also , in his Historia Histrionica , first printed in 1699 , states it as his opinion that it was written in the reign of Edward VI . In refutation of all this it is alleged ...
... says that it was written and first printed in 1551. * Wright also , in his Historia Histrionica , first printed in 1699 , states it as his opinion that it was written in the reign of Edward VI . In refutation of all this it is alleged ...
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... says , " there are two sorts - the one ancient , the other modern : the ancient marked the quantity of each syllable , and , according to that , framed his verse ; the modern observing only number , with some regard to the accent , the ...
... says , " there are two sorts - the one ancient , the other modern : the ancient marked the quantity of each syllable , and , according to that , framed his verse ; the modern observing only number , with some regard to the accent , the ...
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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.