Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on His Genius and Writings, a New Chronology of His Plays, a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets, and a History of the Manners, Customs, Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age |
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... Robert Greene's , under the title of " Greene's Groatsworth of Wit , bought with a Million of Repentance , " in which the author speaks harshly of Marlowe , and still more so of Shakspeare , who was then rising into fame . Both these ...
... Robert Greene's , under the title of " Greene's Groatsworth of Wit , bought with a Million of Repentance , " in which the author speaks harshly of Marlowe , and still more so of Shakspeare , who was then rising into fame . Both these ...
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... Robert Greene , Thomas Dekker , and Thomas Nash ; men possessed of genius , learning , and unquestioned ability , as poets , satirists , and critics ; but excessively debauched in their manners , intemperate in their pas- sions , and ...
... Robert Greene , Thomas Dekker , and Thomas Nash ; men possessed of genius , learning , and unquestioned ability , as poets , satirists , and critics ; but excessively debauched in their manners , intemperate in their pas- sions , and ...
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... Robert Greene and other Poets by him abused . Imprinted by John Wolfe , 1592 ; " a very curious work , which we shall have occasion to quote hereafter ; and Nash's " Have with you to Saffron - Walden , or Gabriel Harvey's hunt is up ...
... Robert Greene and other Poets by him abused . Imprinted by John Wolfe , 1592 ; " a very curious work , which we shall have occasion to quote hereafter ; and Nash's " Have with you to Saffron - Walden , or Gabriel Harvey's hunt is up ...
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... Robert Greene , whose vices he shared , and with whom he acted as the unre- lenting scourge of the Harveys . This terror of his opponents , this Aretine of England , though most remarkable for his numerous prose pamphlets , was also a ...
... Robert Greene , whose vices he shared , and with whom he acted as the unre- lenting scourge of the Harveys . This terror of his opponents , this Aretine of England , though most remarkable for his numerous prose pamphlets , was also a ...
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... Robert Greene , the author of near fifty productions , * the history is so highly monitory and interesting as to demand more than a cursory notice . It affords , indeed , one of the most melancholy proofs of learning , taste , and ...
... Robert Greene , the author of near fifty productions , * the history is so highly monitory and interesting as to demand more than a cursory notice . It affords , indeed , one of the most melancholy proofs of learning , taste , and ...
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Page 189 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 547 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 372 - O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, A dearer birth than this his love had brought, To march in ranks of better equipage: But since he died, and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.
Page 139 - Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 385 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go...
Page 520 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Page 506 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
Page 386 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 193 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 200 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.