The Literature of the Age of ElizabethHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 364 من الصفحات |
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... Poet , historian , courtier , statesman , military commander , naval com- mander , colonizer , filibuster , he had no talent and no accomplishment , no virtue and no vice , which the time did not tempt into exercise . He participated in ...
... Poet , historian , courtier , statesman , military commander , naval com- mander , colonizer , filibuster , he had no talent and no accomplishment , no virtue and no vice , which the time did not tempt into exercise . He participated in ...
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... poets . As the external inducements to adopt literature as a profes- sion were not so great as in our day , as there was no reading public in our sense of the term , we are at first surprised that so much genius was diverted into this ...
... poets . As the external inducements to adopt literature as a profes- sion were not so great as in our day , as there was no reading public in our sense of the term , we are at first surprised that so much genius was diverted into this ...
الصفحة 13
... poet as a popular poet . Fletcher , though the most fertile of the three in the number of his plays , and the greatest master of theatrical effect , did not , it is supposed , altogether de- pend on the stage for his support . But ...
... poet as a popular poet . Fletcher , though the most fertile of the three in the number of his plays , and the greatest master of theatrical effect , did not , it is supposed , altogether de- pend on the stage for his support . But ...
الصفحة 17
... of country life . The poetic ele- ment , which was afterwards so conspicuous in the Eliza- bethan drama , did not even appear in the first English B tragedy , " Gorboduc , " though it was written ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 17.
... of country life . The poetic ele- ment , which was afterwards so conspicuous in the Eliza- bethan drama , did not even appear in the first English B tragedy , " Gorboduc , " though it was written ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 17.
الصفحة 18
... poet that arose be- tween Chaucer and Spenser . " Gorboduc " was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall , by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple , in January , 1562. It was re- ceived with great applause ; but it appears , as read now ...
... poet that arose be- tween Chaucer and Spenser . " Gorboduc " was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall , by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple , in January , 1562. It was re- ceived with great applause ; but it appears , as read now ...
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الصفحة 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
الصفحة 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
الصفحة 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
الصفحة 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
الصفحة 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
الصفحة 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
الصفحة 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
الصفحة 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
الصفحة 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
الصفحة 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.