Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... course of fast - declining life . There heard we him , with broke and hollow plaint , Rue with himself his end approaching fast , And all for nought his wretched mind torment With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past , And fresh ...
... course of fast - declining life . There heard we him , with broke and hollow plaint , Rue with himself his end approaching fast , And all for nought his wretched mind torment With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past , And fresh ...
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... course , cha- racters very nearly approaching in their nature to the impersonated vices and virtues of the new species of drama must have occasionally appeared . The Devil of the Miracles , for example , would very naturally suggest the ...
... course , cha- racters very nearly approaching in their nature to the impersonated vices and virtues of the new species of drama must have occasionally appeared . The Devil of the Miracles , for example , would very naturally suggest the ...
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... course of the dialogue would seem to prove that the play must have been composed about the year 1560. To the prologue is appended the name of Thomas Rychardes , who has therefore been assumed to be the author . The play , as contained ...
... course of the dialogue would seem to prove that the play must have been composed about the year 1560. To the prologue is appended the name of Thomas Rychardes , who has therefore been assumed to be the author . The play , as contained ...
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... course in which they happened ; the author sacrificing chronology , situation , and circumstance to the superior object of producing an attractive play . ' Of what may be called at least the transition from the moral - play to the ...
... course in which they happened ; the author sacrificing chronology , situation , and circumstance to the superior object of producing an attractive play . ' Of what may be called at least the transition from the moral - play to the ...
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... course all the depths of human experience , and drinking the cup of passion and suffering to the dregs . And of their great successors , those who carried the drama to its height among us in the next age , while some were also accom ...
... course all the depths of human experience , and drinking the cup of passion and suffering to the dregs . And of their great successors , those who carried the drama to its height among us in the next age , while some were also accom ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Страница 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...
Страница 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.