Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
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... perhaps somewhat later , the only species of drama known was that styled the Miracle , or Miracle - play . The subjects of the miracle - plays were all taken from the histories of the Old and New Testament , or from the legends of ...
... perhaps somewhat later , the only species of drama known was that styled the Miracle , or Miracle - play . The subjects of the miracle - plays were all taken from the histories of the Old and New Testament , or from the legends of ...
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... perhaps not printed earlier than 1566 ( for the title - page was gone ) ; but the play is mentioned in Thomas Wilson's ' Rule of Reason , ' first printed in 1551 , and other considerations make it probable that it may have been written ...
... perhaps not printed earlier than 1566 ( for the title - page was gone ) ; but the play is mentioned in Thomas Wilson's ' Rule of Reason , ' first printed in 1551 , and other considerations make it probable that it may have been written ...
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... perhaps rather more easy and flowing - a circumstance which , more than any external evidence that has been produced , would incline us to assign it to a somewhat later date . But it is in all respects a very tame and poor performance ...
... perhaps rather more easy and flowing - a circumstance which , more than any external evidence that has been produced , would incline us to assign it to a somewhat later date . But it is in all respects a very tame and poor performance ...
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... perhaps ten or twelve of his plays , including some of those in which , to pass over all other and higher things , the music of the verse has ever been accounted the most perfect and delicious . We know at least that The Midsummer ...
... perhaps ten or twelve of his plays , including some of those in which , to pass over all other and higher things , the music of the verse has ever been accounted the most perfect and delicious . We know at least that The Midsummer ...
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... perhaps , not quite so high : " Peele has some command of imagery , but in every other quality it seems to me that he has scarce any claim to honour ; and I doubt if there are three lines together in any of his plays that could be ...
... perhaps , not quite so high : " Peele has some command of imagery , but in every other quality it seems to me that he has scarce any claim to honour ; and I doubt if there are three lines together in any of his plays that could be ...
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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.