Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
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... means of my lord Stafford , † the first part was licensed , and imprinted the first year of the reign of this our most noble and virtuous Queen , and dedicated then to your honours with this preface . Since which time , although I have ...
... means of my lord Stafford , † the first part was licensed , and imprinted the first year of the reign of this our most noble and virtuous Queen , and dedicated then to your honours with this preface . Since which time , although I have ...
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... means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all ...
... means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all ...
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... means of the approaches they had for some time been making to a more improved species of composition , " and partly because , under the form of allegorical fiction and abstract character , the writers intro- duced matter which covertly ...
... means of the approaches they had for some time been making to a more improved species of composition , " and partly because , under the form of allegorical fiction and abstract character , the writers intro- duced matter which covertly ...
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... means certain that Gammer Gurton's Needle was not written in that same year . This " right pithy , pleasant , and merie comedie , " as it is designated on the title - page , is , like Udall's play , regularly divided into acts and ...
... means certain that Gammer Gurton's Needle was not written in that same year . This " right pithy , pleasant , and merie comedie , " as it is designated on the title - page , is , like Udall's play , regularly divided into acts and ...
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... mean time the new species of verse had been cul- tivated in several original compositions by Nicholas Grimoald , from whom , in the opinion of Warton , the rude model exhibited by Surrey received " new strength , elegance , and ...
... mean time the new species of verse had been cul- tivated in several original compositions by Nicholas Grimoald , from whom , in the opinion of Warton , the rude model exhibited by Surrey received " new strength , elegance , and ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Page 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...
Page 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.