Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of English Literature from the English Conquest of Britain, 449, to the Death of Walter Scott, 1832 |
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... 113 • XX . ON FRANCIS BACON , BARON VERULAM , VISCOUNT ST . ALBANS XXI . ON THE ENGLISH DRAMA AND SOME OF THE PLAY- WRITERS WHO CAME BEFORE SHAKESPEARE • 121 116 TALK XXII . ON CHRISTOPHER Marlowe , the GREAT PREDE- X CONTENTS .
... 113 • XX . ON FRANCIS BACON , BARON VERULAM , VISCOUNT ST . ALBANS XXI . ON THE ENGLISH DRAMA AND SOME OF THE PLAY- WRITERS WHO CAME BEFORE SHAKESPEARE • 121 116 TALK XXII . ON CHRISTOPHER Marlowe , the GREAT PREDE- X CONTENTS .
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... PLAYS , - PAGE 129 136 - " RICH- · • 144 ARD II .; " " HAMLET ; " " THE TEMPEST " XXV . ON THE DRAMATIC POETS WHO LIVED IN SHAKE- SPEARE'S TIME , -BEN JONSON ; BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER • • 153 162 XXVI . ON GEORGE CHAPMAN , JOHN WEBSTER ...
... PLAYS , - PAGE 129 136 - " RICH- · • 144 ARD II .; " " HAMLET ; " " THE TEMPEST " XXV . ON THE DRAMATIC POETS WHO LIVED IN SHAKE- SPEARE'S TIME , -BEN JONSON ; BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER • • 153 162 XXVI . ON GEORGE CHAPMAN , JOHN WEBSTER ...
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... play , and old men from the chimney - corner . And pretending no more , doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue , even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as ...
... play , and old men from the chimney - corner . And pretending no more , doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue , even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as ...
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... plays the consoler , and in doing so , utters many wise maxims that are as good to read to - day as ever they were . In this translation are many fables , which Alfred has told in the simplest words , as we should tell a story to a ...
... plays the consoler , and in doing so , utters many wise maxims that are as good to read to - day as ever they were . In this translation are many fables , which Alfred has told in the simplest words , as we should tell a story to a ...
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... play with him for his harping . Then he went farther , until he met the fierce godesses whom the common people call Parcę , of whom they say that they know no respect for any man , but punish every man according to his deeds . Then ...
... play with him for his harping . Then he went farther , until he met the fierce godesses whom the common people call Parcę , of whom they say that they know no respect for any man , but punish every man according to his deeds . Then ...
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Page 131 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 366 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 167 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 236 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 178 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 367 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 130 - And thus expiring do foretell of him : His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves ; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short ; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes ; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Page 345 - High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 302 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 177 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...