An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, EsqJ. Archdeacon, 1767 - 50 страници |
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... Verse afforded a most beautiful instance of the Pes proceleufmaticus ! " But , continues Mr. Upton , it was a learned age ; Roger Afcham affures us , that Queen Elizabeth read more Greek every day , than fome Dignitaries of the Church ...
... Verse afforded a most beautiful instance of the Pes proceleufmaticus ! " But , continues Mr. Upton , it was a learned age ; Roger Afcham affures us , that Queen Elizabeth read more Greek every day , than fome Dignitaries of the Church ...
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... Verse is defective both in Accent and Quantity , B. 3. V. 266 . His words here ended , but his meek Afpé Silent yet spake . " . Here , fays he , a fyllable is acuted and long , whereas it should be short and graved ! " And a still more ...
... Verse is defective both in Accent and Quantity , B. 3. V. 266 . His words here ended , but his meek Afpé Silent yet spake . " . Here , fays he , a fyllable is acuted and long , whereas it should be short and graved ! " And a still more ...
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... Verse faile in a Sylláble . ” In fhort , the attention was directed to the Cefural pause , as the Grammarians call it ; which is carefully marked in every line of Lydgate : and Gascoigne in his Certayne notes of Inftruction concerning ...
... Verse faile in a Sylláble . ” In fhort , the attention was directed to the Cefural pause , as the Grammarians call it ; which is carefully marked in every line of Lydgate : and Gascoigne in his Certayne notes of Inftruction concerning ...
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... verse , " he is only a copy of Hanniball Gonfaga , who ranted on yielding himself a Prisoner to an English Cap- tain in the Low Countries , as you may read in an old Collection of Tales , called Wits , Fits , and Fancies , • " Si ...
... verse , " he is only a copy of Hanniball Gonfaga , who ranted on yielding himself a Prisoner to an English Cap- tain in the Low Countries , as you may read in an old Collection of Tales , called Wits , Fits , and Fancies , • " Si ...
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... Verses , as they were going privilie to victuall the Low Countries , 1593. " Harvey re- joined the fame year in " Pierce's Supererogation , or a new praise of the old Affe . " And Naf again , in " Have with you to Saffron - walden , or ...
... Verses , as they were going privilie to victuall the Low Countries , 1593. " Harvey re- joined the fame year in " Pierce's Supererogation , or a new praise of the old Affe . " And Naf again , in " Have with you to Saffron - walden , or ...
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Страница 31 - Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aerial sky.
Страница 22 - Bible, by consulting the Concordance of Alexander Cruden. But whence have we the Plot of Timon, except from the Greek of Lucian?
Страница 88 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should...
Страница 70 - A compendious or briefe Examination of certayne ordinary Complaints of diuers of our Countrymen in these our...
Страница 77 - He was esteemed,' says Anthony Wood, ' a most noted poet, 1579 ; but when or where he died, I cannot tell, for so it is, and always hath been, that most Poets die poor, and consequently obscurely, and a hard matter it is to trace them to their graves.
Страница 8 - ... peruse over before, once or twice, the chapters and homilies, to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people.
Страница 90 - I have quoted many pieces of John Taylor, but it was impossible to give their original dates. He may be traced as an author for more than half a century.
Страница 9 - Wagstaff on Tom Thumb; and I myself will engage to give you quotations from the elder English writers (for, to own the truth, I was once idle enough to collect such,) which shall carry with them at least an equal degree of similarity. But there can be no occasion of wasting any future time in this department: the world is now in possession of the Marks of Imitation. " Shakespeare however hath frequent allusions to the facts and fables of antiquity.
Страница 85 - Heminge and Condell ; who at their own retirement, about seven years after the death of their author, gave the world the edition now known by the name of the first folio ; and call the previous publications " stolne and surreptitious, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors.
Страница 88 - Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeare in his tomb, he should triumph againe on the stage, and haue his bones new embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least, (at seuerall times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding?