Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the Elizabethan PeriodRivingtons, 1884 - 374 Seiten |
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... comedy end in tragedy , so at the end of the meal one or another boy was dragged out to be flogged . . . . I myself was once by , when after dinner as usual he called out a boy , I should think about ten years old . He had only just ...
... comedy end in tragedy , so at the end of the meal one or another boy was dragged out to be flogged . . . . I myself was once by , when after dinner as usual he called out a boy , I should think about ten years old . He had only just ...
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... comedy and tragedy on a stage in a coffee - house . " M. Taine was then eleven years old ; and he thinks that the illusions of a fresh imaginative young nature , eager for joy and ready to find it anywhere , sufficiently supple- mented ...
... comedy and tragedy on a stage in a coffee - house . " M. Taine was then eleven years old ; and he thinks that the illusions of a fresh imaginative young nature , eager for joy and ready to find it anywhere , sufficiently supple- mented ...
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... comedy , although the tragic element predominated . For this mixture there is a classic precedent in the Alcestis of Euripides ; and plays of this kind were written by the Italians , who invented for them the term tragi - comedy . The ...
... comedy , although the tragic element predominated . For this mixture there is a classic precedent in the Alcestis of Euripides ; and plays of this kind were written by the Italians , who invented for them the term tragi - comedy . The ...
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... comedy the plays which now begin to increase in number and variety . To the direct influence of Seneca is ascribed the composition of the first English tragedy . Between 1559 and 1581 ten of Seneca's plays were translated , and Gorboduc ...
... comedy the plays which now begin to increase in number and variety . To the direct influence of Seneca is ascribed the composition of the first English tragedy . Between 1559 and 1581 ten of Seneca's plays were translated , and Gorboduc ...
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... comedy . The transition from the moralities , in which the comic element consisted of exaggerations and elaboration of Herod and the devils , " required some writer who would be bold enough to throw overboard altogether the traditionary ...
... comedy . The transition from the moralities , in which the comic element consisted of exaggerations and elaboration of Herod and the devils , " required some writer who would be bold enough to throw overboard altogether the traditionary ...
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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...