Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... period in the succeeding reign , when we find the Earl of Nottingham , in his embassy to Spain , accompanied by a retinue of five hundred persons , and the Earl of Hertford , at Brussels , carried three hundred gentlemen . " The ...
... period in the succeeding reign , when we find the Earl of Nottingham , in his embassy to Spain , accompanied by a retinue of five hundred persons , and the Earl of Hertford , at Brussels , carried three hundred gentlemen . " The ...
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... period for royalty ; and a precarious throne , while it naturally approximated the sovereign to the people , also taught the nation its own capacities , by maintaining their monarch's glory amid her external and internal enemies . The ...
... period for royalty ; and a precarious throne , while it naturally approximated the sovereign to the people , also taught the nation its own capacities , by maintaining their monarch's glory amid her external and internal enemies . The ...
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... period , was a dominion as strange as America and the Indies ; during the extraordinary events of this period , when Elizabeth had obtained a monopoly of the trade of that country , the czar proposed to marry an English lady : a British ...
... period , was a dominion as strange as America and the Indies ; during the extraordinary events of this period , when Elizabeth had obtained a monopoly of the trade of that country , the czar proposed to marry an English lady : a British ...
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... period down to a much later , every one seems to have been at a loss to write their own names . The name of Villers is spelt fourteen different ways in the deeds of that family . The simple dissyllabic but illustrious name of Percy ...
... period down to a much later , every one seems to have been at a loss to write their own names . The name of Villers is spelt fourteen different ways in the deeds of that family . The simple dissyllabic but illustrious name of Percy ...
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... period . The learned Sir JOHN CHEKE , the most accomplished Greek scholar of the age , descended from correcting the Greek pro- nunciation to invent a system of English orthography . Cheke was no formal pedant ; with an enlarged notion ...
... period . The learned Sir JOHN CHEKE , the most accomplished Greek scholar of the age , descended from correcting the Greek pro- nunciation to invent a system of English orthography . Cheke was no formal pedant ; with an enlarged notion ...
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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.