Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volumen4Smith, Elder & Company, 1884 - 668 páginas |
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Página xiv
... Servants of the Nobility become Players - Statutes of Edward VI . and Mary - Statutes of Elizabeth - Licences . - II . Elizabeth's and Leicester's Patronage of the Stage - Royal Patent of 1574 - Master of the Revels - Contest between ...
... Servants of the Nobility become Players - Statutes of Edward VI . and Mary - Statutes of Elizabeth - Licences . - II . Elizabeth's and Leicester's Patronage of the Stage - Royal Patent of 1574 - Master of the Revels - Contest between ...
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... servants of the aristocracy , took the fairer name of minstrels . Lyric poetry rose , in the new dialects of the Romance nations , to a place of honour through the genius of troubadours and trouvères , who were recognised as lineal ...
... servants of the aristocracy , took the fairer name of minstrels . Lyric poetry rose , in the new dialects of the Romance nations , to a place of honour through the genius of troubadours and trouvères , who were recognised as lineal ...
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... servants of noble families with badges on their shoulders , hawkers of pardons and relics , pedlars , artificers , grooms , foresters , hinds from the farm and shepherds from the fells ; all known by special qualities I of dress and ...
... servants of noble families with badges on their shoulders , hawkers of pardons and relics , pedlars , artificers , grooms , foresters , hinds from the farm and shepherds from the fells ; all known by special qualities I of dress and ...
Página 156
... servant of the law . Covetous is mine own fellow . We twain plead for the king ; And poor men that come from upland , We will take their matter in hand ; Be it right or be it wrong , Their thrift with us shall wend . It next appears ...
... servant of the law . Covetous is mine own fellow . We twain plead for the king ; And poor men that come from upland , We will take their matter in hand ; Be it right or be it wrong , Their thrift with us shall wend . It next appears ...
Página 171
... servant runs away , and the citizen is left alone to parley with the awful appa- rition . He tries to bribe Death with money , and to soften him with prayers . But Death is obdurate ; the man's hour has come ; he must away from wife and ...
... servant runs away , and the citizen is left alone to parley with the awful appa- rition . He tries to bribe Death with money , and to soften him with prayers . But Death is obdurate ; the man's hour has come ; he must away from wife and ...
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Página 57 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 226 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Página 593 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 515 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Página 49 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 319 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Página 615 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Página 388 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Página 434 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 49 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...