Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... present , was a moral - play , entitled The Contention be- tween Liberality and Prodigality , ' which was performed before her majesty in 1600 , or 1601. This production was printed in 1602 , and was probably written not long before ...
... present , was a moral - play , entitled The Contention be- tween Liberality and Prodigality , ' which was performed before her majesty in 1600 , or 1601. This production was printed in 1602 , and was probably written not long before ...
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... present case he merely offers a conjecture ; so that we are left to depend , not upon his correctness , but upon his sagacity . That very little dependence is to be placed upon that , they will feel most who know Ritson best . 99 ...
... present case he merely offers a conjecture ; so that we are left to depend , not upon his correctness , but upon his sagacity . That very little dependence is to be placed upon that , they will feel most who know Ritson best . 99 ...
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... present iu- stance this was done , as the author tells us , at the request of a lady , who did not understand " poetical words or terms . " But it was a practice occasionally followed down to a much later date . To all the quarto ...
... present iu- stance this was done , as the author tells us , at the request of a lady , who did not understand " poetical words or terms . " But it was a practice occasionally followed down to a much later date . To all the quarto ...
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... present euphony . From the strictures Shakspeare , in Love's Labour's Lost , makes Holofernes pass on the mode of speaking of his Euphuist , Don Adriano de Armado- " a man of fire - new words , fashion's own knight - that hath a mint of ...
... present euphony . From the strictures Shakspeare , in Love's Labour's Lost , makes Holofernes pass on the mode of speaking of his Euphuist , Don Adriano de Armado- " a man of fire - new words , fashion's own knight - that hath a mint of ...
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... present shape ; but it is most likely that he had for his ground- work some rude popular legend or tradition , the charac- teristic middle age geography and chronology of which he most properly did not disturb . But the most brilliant ...
... present shape ; but it is most likely that he had for his ground- work some rude popular legend or tradition , the charac- teristic middle age geography and chronology of which he most properly did not disturb . But the most brilliant ...
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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.
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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...
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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.