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... style to lash with a wild and burlesque humour personified vices , at another he deluges with furious outbursts of abuse his personal enemies at the Court of King James . In ' The Dance of the Deadly Sins ' he has come near to equalling ...
... style to lash with a wild and burlesque humour personified vices , at another he deluges with furious outbursts of abuse his personal enemies at the Court of King James . In ' The Dance of the Deadly Sins ' he has come near to equalling ...
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... style , and little trace of Chaucer's influence . Gifted with a rude but caustic humour and considerable force of imagination , he added to these qualities a profound knowledge of life both high and low . Even apart from the fascinating ...
... style , and little trace of Chaucer's influence . Gifted with a rude but caustic humour and considerable force of imagination , he added to these qualities a profound knowledge of life both high and low . Even apart from the fascinating ...
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... style , which is clear and , except in his prose works , unaffected , shows him to be a master of the English language . Without any great fertility of fancy , he has masculine energy and an undoubted gift of satirical description . The ...
... style , which is clear and , except in his prose works , unaffected , shows him to be a master of the English language . Without any great fertility of fancy , he has masculine energy and an undoubted gift of satirical description . The ...
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... style diffuse , their sarcasm often pointless , their satire frequently degenerates into the absurdest buffoonery , but , in spite of all those defects , the wit , were and warmth , and life of the Elizabethans was INTRODUCTION 15.
... style diffuse , their sarcasm often pointless , their satire frequently degenerates into the absurdest buffoonery , but , in spite of all those defects , the wit , were and warmth , and life of the Elizabethans was INTRODUCTION 15.
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... style which Greene exhibited in his love - stories . The sentences , indeed , are straggling and unframed , but the style becomes simple and natural . The chief fault of his prose , dramatic or other , is that there is no air of repose ...
... style which Greene exhibited in his love - stories . The sentences , indeed , are straggling and unframed , but the style becomes simple and natural . The chief fault of his prose , dramatic or other , is that there is no air of repose ...
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Page 211 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer...
Page 250 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 280 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 279 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 192 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 172 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 173 - The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 234 - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, 'which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose ; his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He...
Page 216 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 207 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.