Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... Spenser The Faery Queen Allegory • The First Tragedy , and the First Comedy The Predecessors and Contemporaries of Shakespeare Shakespeare The " Humors " of Jonson Drayton The Psychological History of Rawleigh The Occult Philosopher ...
... Spenser The Faery Queen Allegory • The First Tragedy , and the First Comedy The Predecessors and Contemporaries of Shakespeare Shakespeare The " Humors " of Jonson Drayton The Psychological History of Rawleigh The Occult Philosopher ...
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... Spenser , in their youth subservient to the taste of their learned friend Gabriel Harvey , to submit their vernacular verse to the torturous Roman yoke . Had this project of versification become popular it would necessarily have ended ...
... Spenser , in their youth subservient to the taste of their learned friend Gabriel Harvey , to submit their vernacular verse to the torturous Roman yoke . Had this project of versification become popular it would necessarily have ended ...
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... Spenser . * * The following letter is an evidence of the uncertain accounts respect- ing this author among the most knowing literary historians . Here , too , we find that Webster , or George , or Richard , is changed into Jo !. " What ...
... Spenser . * * The following letter is an evidence of the uncertain accounts respect- ing this author among the most knowing literary historians . Here , too , we find that Webster , or George , or Richard , is changed into Jo !. " What ...
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... Spenser , we know , had lost and never recovered . The poet lived ten years after the present publication , and it ... Spenser was the author of that book , which came out anonymous . But Sir John Harrington , in his preface to Orlando ...
... Spenser , we know , had lost and never recovered . The poet lived ten years after the present publication , and it ... Spenser was the author of that book , which came out anonymous . But Sir John Harrington , in his preface to Orlando ...
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... SPENSER , might have fallen into the hands of some courtly critic , or " the Gentleman Pen- sioner , " who inlaid it with many of his own trivialities : the discrepancy in the ingenuity of the writing , with the genius of the writer in ...
... SPENSER , might have fallen into the hands of some courtly critic , or " the Gentleman Pen- sioner , " who inlaid it with many of his own trivialities : the discrepancy in the ingenuity of the writing , with the genius of the writer in ...
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Strana 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Strana 197 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Strana 188 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o...
Strana 117 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes...
Strana 360 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Strana 12 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.
Strana 193 - 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.
Strana 334 - Learning," translated into Latin, but so enlarged as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not.
Strana 204 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Strana 158 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.