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... play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction in a confusion that cannot be disentangled . Gerald Barry ( Giraldus Cambrensis ) , Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough ...
... play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction in a confusion that cannot be disentangled . Gerald Barry ( Giraldus Cambrensis ) , Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough ...
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... Play , -are ascribed to him rather than to James V. The former is in the Aberdeenshire dialect , the latter in that of Tweeddale , and both humorously describe certain old Scottish country merry - makings . Ruling not wisely ( for ...
... Play , -are ascribed to him rather than to James V. The former is in the Aberdeenshire dialect , the latter in that of Tweeddale , and both humorously describe certain old Scottish country merry - makings . Ruling not wisely ( for ...
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... Play of the Three Estates , a dramatic satire on the king , lords , and commons , which was acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie ...
... Play of the Three Estates , a dramatic satire on the king , lords , and commons , which was acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie ...
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... play of Henry VIII . , was not printed until 1641. Cavendish , who was also a member of the royal household , died in 1557 . SIR JOHN CHEKE , who was born in 1514 , is more worthy of remembrance for his success in fostering the study of ...
... play of Henry VIII . , was not printed until 1641. Cavendish , who was also a member of the royal household , died in 1557 . SIR JOHN CHEKE , who was born in 1514 , is more worthy of remembrance for his success in fostering the study of ...
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... play . Standing of the players . THE Miracle Play or Mystery , acted in churches and convents , either by the clergy themselves or under their immediate direction , was the earliest form of the English drama . The only knowledge of ...
... play . Standing of the players . THE Miracle Play or Mystery , acted in churches and convents , either by the clergy themselves or under their immediate direction , was the earliest form of the English drama . The only knowledge of ...
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A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Visualização completa - 1892 |
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Página 312 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Página 385 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 311 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay.
Página 374 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Página 377 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Página 121 - Fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love : On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight : O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Página 169 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 284 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My lord, Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Página 169 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Página 169 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...