Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Том 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... Drama , for example , an exponent , to some extent , of the state of the national mind at the time , and is it not equally one of the influences which may be presumed to have modified that mind in the age which followed ? Nor is it to ...
... Drama , for example , an exponent , to some extent , of the state of the national mind at the time , and is it not equally one of the influences which may be presumed to have modified that mind in the age which followed ? Nor is it to ...
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... Dramatic Dialogue after the Restora- tion , 494 • POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Lampoon , Spenser and Milton , • Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 496 497 497 MATTHEW PRIOR , For my Own Monument , Epitaph Extempore ...
... Dramatic Dialogue after the Restora- tion , 494 • POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Lampoon , Spenser and Milton , • Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 496 497 497 MATTHEW PRIOR , For my Own Monument , Epitaph Extempore ...
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... dramatic , and not only prove his good sense , but exhibit no unfavourable specimens of his eloquence . In his description of the first crusade , he seems to change his usual character , and becomes not only enter- taining , but even ...
... dramatic , and not only prove his good sense , but exhibit no unfavourable specimens of his eloquence . In his description of the first crusade , he seems to change his usual character , and becomes not only enter- taining , but even ...
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... dramatic pieces on sacred subjects , which , to a modern taste , appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's ...
... dramatic pieces on sacred subjects , which , to a modern taste , appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's ...
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... drama , for instance , chiefly owed that en- couragement which it received under Elizabeth and her successors , to a ... dramatic writer . In 1557 , Sackville formed the de- sign of a poem , entitled The Mirrour for Magistrates , of ...
... drama , for instance , chiefly owed that en- couragement which it received under Elizabeth and her successors , to a ... dramatic writer . In 1557 , Sackville formed the de- sign of a poem , entitled The Mirrour for Magistrates , of ...
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Страница 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Страница 132 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Страница 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Страница 107 - Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Страница 395 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Страница 331 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Страница 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Страница 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Страница 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Страница 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...