The Literature of the Age of ElizabethHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 364 من الصفحات |
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... politics , as they afterwards proved in the Parliaments of Charles and the Commonwealth ; but in the time of Elizabeth they were politically but a faction , and a faction having at one time for its head the greatest scoundrel in England ...
... politics , as they afterwards proved in the Parliaments of Charles and the Commonwealth ; but in the time of Elizabeth they were politically but a faction , and a faction having at one time for its head the greatest scoundrel in England ...
الصفحة 7
... political affairs , that the difficulty , with all but the most capacious intellects , was to decide at all ; and even they sometimes found it wise to follow the drift of events which it was almost impossible to shape or to guide . It ...
... political affairs , that the difficulty , with all but the most capacious intellects , was to decide at all ; and even they sometimes found it wise to follow the drift of events which it was almost impossible to shape or to guide . It ...
الصفحة 100
... that we should enjoy if the editors of two opposing political newspapers should meet in a hall filled with their subscribers , and fling their thundering edito- rials in person at each other's heads . The theatre 100 BEN JONSON .
... that we should enjoy if the editors of two opposing political newspapers should meet in a hall filled with their subscribers , and fling their thundering edito- rials in person at each other's heads . The theatre 100 BEN JONSON .
الصفحة 179
... politics interfered with his success at the theatre . Fletcher's slavish political doctrines were perfectly suited to the court of James and Charles . says one of his characters , - " We are but subjects , Maximus . Obedience To what is ...
... politics interfered with his success at the theatre . Fletcher's slavish political doctrines were perfectly suited to the court of James and Charles . says one of his characters , - " We are but subjects , Maximus . Obedience To what is ...
الصفحة 191
... awakened that a man with such a con- scious mastery of the resources of thought and language should have written so little . If political ambition the ambition that puts thoughts into facts instead of putting SPENSER . 191.
... awakened that a man with such a con- scious mastery of the resources of thought and language should have written so little . If political ambition the ambition that puts thoughts into facts instead of putting SPENSER . 191.
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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.