Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... perhaps , is the conclusion of another of Mar- low's dramas - his tragedy of Edward II . " The reluc- tant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward , " says Charles Lamb , " furnished hints which Shakspeare scarce im- proved in his Richard ...
... perhaps , is the conclusion of another of Mar- low's dramas - his tragedy of Edward II . " The reluc- tant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward , " says Charles Lamb , " furnished hints which Shakspeare scarce im- proved in his Richard ...
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... perhaps be placed at least on the same line with the two latter . John Lyly , the Euphuist , as he is called , from one of his prose works , which will be noticed presently , is , as a poet , in his happiest efforts , elegant and ...
... perhaps be placed at least on the same line with the two latter . John Lyly , the Euphuist , as he is called , from one of his prose works , which will be noticed presently , is , as a poet , in his happiest efforts , elegant and ...
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... perhaps , on the whole , more creditable to his poetical powers than his dramatic per- formances . He is also the author of several short works in prose , sometimes interspersed with verse . One of his prose tales , first printed in ...
... perhaps , on the whole , more creditable to his poetical powers than his dramatic per- formances . He is also the author of several short works in prose , sometimes interspersed with verse . One of his prose tales , first printed in ...
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... Perhaps , indeed , our language is , after all , indebted to this writer and his Euphuism for not a little of its present euphony . From the strictures Shakspeare , in Love's Labour's Lost , makes Holofernes pass on the mode of speaking ...
... Perhaps , indeed , our language is , after all , indebted to this writer and his Euphuism for not a little of its present euphony . From the strictures Shakspeare , in Love's Labour's Lost , makes Holofernes pass on the mode of speaking ...
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... perhaps was not blind to his better qualities , and did not disdain to adopt some of his reforms in the language , if not to imitate even some of the peculiarities of his style , was Sir Philip Sidney , the illustrious author of the ...
... perhaps was not blind to his better qualities , and did not disdain to adopt some of his reforms in the language , if not to imitate even some of the peculiarities of his style , was Sir Philip Sidney , the illustrious author of the ...
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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.