 | 1838 - 542 Seiten
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
 | 1838 - 542 Seiten
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous dunng the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 Seiten
...been the theatre of great events. Such historical^ travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 Seiten
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 424 Seiten
...In short the views and demands with which poets are often oppressed by a prosaical 314 LECTURES ON public are personified in the most ingenious and amusing...the first period of the English theatre is the only cue of importance. The plays of the least known writers of that time, (I venture to affirm this, though... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 554 Seiten
...perceive between them something about the same relation as between the paintings of the school of Michel Angelo and those of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth THE PURITANS TOE STAGE CLOSED. 4?S century. Both are tainted with manner; but the manner of the former... | |
 | 1877 - 564 Seiten
...asks, 1 Whether Roaer may come and milk my cows. Mum ! ' " There are several other fashionable words of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century to be found in these glossaries, and some expletives which are happily modified now, in sound as well... | |
 | Reformed Church in the United States. General Convention - 1863 - 670 Seiten
...rather from a new phase of the same principle — toward the destruction of a churchly cultus. Through the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries run two parallel tendencies : pietism with its unsteady subjective zeal for practical personal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 104 Seiten
...conception, and he had been forced to wear the garb and mien of a low jester and buffoon. The perverted taste of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries seemed to be unequal to the true appreciation of this grand and gloomy creation of the poet.... | |
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Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries : that people are the riches of a nation. The passage in which this... 
