Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... party of Lord Essex , on the afternoon before their insurrection , ordered the play of the tragical abdication of Richard the Second . It is one of the charges in their trial ; and we learn , from a more secret quarter than the public ...
... party of Lord Essex , on the afternoon before their insurrection , ordered the play of the tragical abdication of Richard the Second . It is one of the charges in their trial ; and we learn , from a more secret quarter than the public ...
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... party asserted that the use of Rhyme was intro- duced by the Saracenic conquerors of Spain and of Sicily , for they ... parties alike concurred in condemning Rhyme as a puerile invention and a barbarous ornament , and of a comparatively ...
... party asserted that the use of Rhyme was intro- duced by the Saracenic conquerors of Spain and of Sicily , for they ... parties alike concurred in condemning Rhyme as a puerile invention and a barbarous ornament , and of a comparatively ...
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... parties were equally perplexed in their researches , and baffled in their conclusions . Each inquirer seemed to trace the use of Rhyme by his own people to a for- eign source , for with no one it appeared to be of native growth . The ...
... parties were equally perplexed in their researches , and baffled in their conclusions . Each inquirer seemed to trace the use of Rhyme by his own people to a for- eign source , for with no one it appeared to be of native growth . The ...
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... party . " The belief in witchcraft was maintained chiefly by that fatal error which has connected the rejection of any supernatural , agency in old women with religious . skepticism ; and it was fostered by the statutes , which with the ...
... party . " The belief in witchcraft was maintained chiefly by that fatal error which has connected the rejection of any supernatural , agency in old women with religious . skepticism ; and it was fostered by the statutes , which with the ...
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... parties , when cast into the same precise position , had only changed their place in it ; and in this revolution of England , in both cases alike , the expatriated were to return , and those at home were to become the expatriated ...
... parties , when cast into the same precise position , had only changed their place in it ; and in this revolution of England , in both cases alike , the expatriated were to return , and those at home were to become the expatriated ...
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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.