Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the Elizabethan PeriodRivingtons, 1884 - 374 Seiten |
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... called Elizabethan period . I hope that they may be a stimulus to the study of the works of the writers of this time , and also that they may serve as connecting links between the many excellent works both of criticism and research ...
... called Elizabethan period . I hope that they may be a stimulus to the study of the works of the writers of this time , and also that they may serve as connecting links between the many excellent works both of criticism and research ...
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... called the Renaissance , embracing as it does that twofold revolt against the authority of the Church and the intellectual despotism of the Schoolmen , the latter specially aided and characterised by the revival of the classics . The ...
... called the Renaissance , embracing as it does that twofold revolt against the authority of the Church and the intellectual despotism of the Schoolmen , the latter specially aided and characterised by the revival of the classics . The ...
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... called Dark , because during them no apparent advance was made either intellectually or politically ; and because the sense of the social tie , of duty and relationship to others , could only be made an instinct by means of a severe ...
... called Dark , because during them no apparent advance was made either intellectually or politically ; and because the sense of the social tie , of duty and relationship to others , could only be made an instinct by means of a severe ...
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... called metaphysical school , in the religious poems of Herbert and Crashaw , in the nobility of feeling of some of the cavalier poets , and in the respect shown for morality by the dramatists of the degenerate Elizabethan stage , by ...
... called metaphysical school , in the religious poems of Herbert and Crashaw , in the nobility of feeling of some of the cavalier poets , and in the respect shown for morality by the dramatists of the degenerate Elizabethan stage , by ...
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... called disciples , employing itself on the material allowed by the Church , till the human mind seemed to lose itself in a series of intellectual gymnastics , acquiring a profound indifference to facts , and an extraordinary subtlety in ...
... called disciples , employing itself on the material allowed by the Church , till the human mind seemed to lose itself in a series of intellectual gymnastics , acquiring a profound indifference to facts , and an extraordinary subtlety in ...
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admiration artistic Ascham Bacon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Bussy d'Ambois Cæsar called character characterisation Charles Lamb chivalry Church classic Colet comedy conception court death delight dignity divine doth drama dramatists Edward II Elizabethan England English enthusiasm Erasmus Euphues Euphuists expression eyes Faery Queen faith fame Faust feeling Gabriel Harvey genius give hath heart heaven Henry Henry VIII Hooker human humour ideal interest Italy Jonson Julius Cæsar King lady learning literary live Lord Lyly Marlowe Marlowe's mind moral nature never noble passion pastoral Petrarch play plot poem poet poetic poetry political prose Puritan Queen reform religious Renaissance Richard II satire says scene Sejanus sense Shakspere Shakspere's shows Sidney sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage style sweet Tamburlaine thee theory things thou thought tion tragedy true truth unto verse virtue writing wrote youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 227 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye. [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd; Tears in his -eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Seite 130 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Seite 358 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Seite 129 - Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope.
Seite 365 - I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Seite 348 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Seite 48 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Seite 226 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Seite 128 - They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder ; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.
Seite 223 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...