Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 71
Page 28
... spirit may very well bear to be compared with the drinking - song in that drama . Neither in the contrivance and conduct of the plot , however , nor in the force with which the characters are exhibited , does it evince the same free and ...
... spirit may very well bear to be compared with the drinking - song in that drama . Neither in the contrivance and conduct of the plot , however , nor in the force with which the characters are exhibited , does it evince the same free and ...
Page 31
... spirit and manner it is wholly undramatic . The story has no dramatic capabilities , no evolution either of action or of character , although it affords some opportunities for description and eloquent declamation ; and neither was there ...
... spirit and manner it is wholly undramatic . The story has no dramatic capabilities , no evolution either of action or of character , although it affords some opportunities for description and eloquent declamation ; and neither was there ...
Page 32
... spirit of dialogue and of dramatic action would not be there . Gorboduc , however , though a dull play , is in some other respects a remarkable production for the time . The language is not dramatic , but it is throughout singularly ...
... spirit of dialogue and of dramatic action would not be there . Gorboduc , however , though a dull play , is in some other respects a remarkable production for the time . The language is not dramatic , but it is throughout singularly ...
Page 51
... spirit . ' Webster might have furnished them . They are full of that wild , solemn , preternatural cast of grief which bewilders us in the Duchess of Malfy . ” The last of these early dramatists we shall notice , Thomas Lodge , who was ...
... spirit . ' Webster might have furnished them . They are full of that wild , solemn , preternatural cast of grief which bewilders us in the Duchess of Malfy . ” The last of these early dramatists we shall notice , Thomas Lodge , who was ...
Page 54
... spirit , which had a learned and classical tinge from the first , that never entirely wore out . The diction of the works of all these dramatists betrays their scholarship ; and they have left upon the language of our higher drama , and ...
... spirit , which had a learned and classical tinge from the first , that never entirely wore out . The diction of the works of all these dramatists betrays their scholarship ; and they have left upon the language of our higher drama , and ...
Other editions - View all
Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volumes 5-6 George Lillie Craik No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
afterwards ancient appears Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse called character Charles Collier comedy death Donne doth dramatic dramatists Dryden early earth edition eminent England English entitled Euphuist fair Fairy Queen fancy Fletcher Gammer Gurton's Needle genius Gorboduc grace Gresham College Harvey hath honour Iliad invention John Jonson King language Latin learned least lived London Long Parliament Lord Milton Mirror for Magistrates modern Musophilus natural never Novum Organum observes passages passion perhaps philosophy pieces plays poem poet poetical poetry printed probably produced prose published racter Ralph Roister Doister readers reign remarkable reprinted rhyme Robert Greene Royal Society satire says seventeenth century Shakspeare song specimen Spenser spirit style supposed thee things Thomas thou thought tion tragedy translation treatise truth unto volume Waller words writer written
Popular passages
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.