Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
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... Reason , ' first printed in 1551 , and other considerations make it probable that it may have been written some fifteen or twenty years before . † * Hist . of Dramatic Poetry , ii . 386 . † See Collier , ii . 446 . This hypothesis would ...
... Reason , ' first printed in 1551 , and other considerations make it probable that it may have been written some fifteen or twenty years before . † * Hist . of Dramatic Poetry , ii . 386 . † See Collier , ii . 446 . This hypothesis would ...
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... reason to believe that some of them formed the founda- tion of plays acted at a later period . " Among the very few original plays of this period that have come down to us is one entitled Damon and Pytheas , which was acted before the ...
... reason to believe that some of them formed the founda- tion of plays acted at a later period . " Among the very few original plays of this period that have come down to us is one entitled Damon and Pytheas , which was acted before the ...
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... reason that many copies thereof were formerly scattered abroad . " At this time it was still common for literary compositions of all kinds to be extensively circulated in manuscript , as used to be the mode of publication before the ...
... reason that many copies thereof were formerly scattered abroad . " At this time it was still common for literary compositions of all kinds to be extensively circulated in manuscript , as used to be the mode of publication before the ...
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... reason in the objections made to certain outworks or appendages of the established system , stood still or drew back as soon as the opposition to the church became really a war of principles . Spenser's puritanism seems almost as un ...
... reason in the objections made to certain outworks or appendages of the established system , stood still or drew back as soon as the opposition to the church became really a war of principles . Spenser's puritanism seems almost as un ...
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... reason , to no profession , it may be doubted if he had any other course to take , in that age , upon the whole so little objectionable as the one he adopted . The scheme of life with which he set out seems to have been to endeavour ...
... reason , to no profession , it may be doubted if he had any other course to take , in that age , upon the whole so little objectionable as the one he adopted . The scheme of life with which he set out seems to have been to endeavour ...
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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.
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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...
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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.