Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volumen4Smith, Elder & Company, 1884 - 668 páginas |
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Página 76
... Holy Office held sway , or where the Church was independent of the State . It might be urged that though exemption from political and ecclesiastical interference was an advan- tage to our theatre , some subordination to learned taste ...
... Holy Office held sway , or where the Church was independent of the State . It might be urged that though exemption from political and ecclesiastical interference was an advan- tage to our theatre , some subordination to learned taste ...
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... holy ground , lapsed more and more into profanity , indecency , and ribaldry . While excluded from an honoured status in the commonwealth , they yet were welcomed at seasons of debauch and jollity . The position which they held was ...
... holy ground , lapsed more and more into profanity , indecency , and ribaldry . While excluded from an honoured status in the commonwealth , they yet were welcomed at seasons of debauch and jollity . The position which they held was ...
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... holy pageantry , ' which seems to prove that the actors in these dramas , and probably the monkish scribes who wrote them , formed a recognised class of artists . The city of Bristol exhibited a ' Ship- wrights ' Play , ' most likely in ...
... holy pageantry , ' which seems to prove that the actors in these dramas , and probably the monkish scribes who wrote them , formed a recognised class of artists . The city of Bristol exhibited a ' Ship- wrights ' Play , ' most likely in ...
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... Holy Ghost and to Joseph in this episode . The same material coarseness of imagination mars the æsthetical effect of many passages , which might , according to our present canons of taste , have been more profitably left to such ...
... Holy Ghost and to Joseph in this episode . The same material coarseness of imagination mars the æsthetical effect of many passages , which might , according to our present canons of taste , have been more profitably left to such ...
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... holy foot , And for my bales thus win some boot , And mercy , Lord , for my trespass . 125 Later on in the same Miracle , a part of striking interest is assigned to Magdalen , when she goes alone to the grave of Christ , and relates her ...
... holy foot , And for my bales thus win some boot , And mercy , Lord , for my trespass . 125 Later on in the same Miracle , a part of striking interest is assigned to Magdalen , when she goes alone to the grave of Christ , and relates her ...
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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...