Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of ElizabethDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 229 páginas |
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... stage , were not so active , so sprightly , and so promising as we were , we begin to imagine that people formerly must have crawled about in a feeble , torpid state , like flies in winter , in a sort of dim twilight of the under ...
... stage , were not so active , so sprightly , and so promising as we were , we begin to imagine that people formerly must have crawled about in a feeble , torpid state , like flies in winter , in a sort of dim twilight of the under ...
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... stage arrived at its Augustan period , and it was the imitation of their literature a century afterwards , when it had arrived at its greatest height ( itself copied from the Greek and Latin , ) that enfeebled and impoverished our own ...
... stage arrived at its Augustan period , and it was the imitation of their literature a century afterwards , when it had arrived at its greatest height ( itself copied from the Greek and Latin , ) that enfeebled and impoverished our own ...
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... them in such ample measure , and which had not yet been ap- propriated to the purposes of poetry or the drama . The stage * See a Voyage to the Straits of Magellan , 1594 was a new thing ; and those who had to 16 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH .
... them in such ample measure , and which had not yet been ap- propriated to the purposes of poetry or the drama . The stage * See a Voyage to the Straits of Magellan , 1594 was a new thing ; and those who had to 16 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH .
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... stage . Another set of writers included in the same general period ( the end of the six- teenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century , ) who are next , or equal , or sometimes superior to these in power , but whose names are now ...
... stage . Another set of writers included in the same general period ( the end of the six- teenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century , ) who are next , or equal , or sometimes superior to these in power , but whose names are now ...
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... stage- effect , as it does in point of general humanity . Edward II . is , according to the modern standard of composi- His hands are hack'd , some fingers cut quite off , Who when he speaks , grunts like a hog , and looks Like one that ...
... stage- effect , as it does in point of general humanity . Edward II . is , according to the modern standard of composi- His hands are hack'd , some fingers cut quite off , Who when he speaks , grunts like a hog , and looks Like one that ...
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Página 138 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Página 178 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
Página 112 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 223 - In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Página 138 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Página 162 - And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, 0, prepare it; My part of death no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Página 138 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been depos'd; some slain in war...
Página 97 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 81 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Página 34 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...