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... Thomas Lodge and George Peele . Greene here vents a deal of fury against the players , alleging that they have all been beholden to him , yet have now forsaken him ; and from thence inferring that the three worthies whom he is exhort ...
... Thomas Lodge and George Peele . Greene here vents a deal of fury against the players , alleging that they have all been beholden to him , yet have now forsaken him ; and from thence inferring that the three worthies whom he is exhort ...
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... Thomas Lodge , in writing another extant play , entitled A Looking - Glass for London and England . This is little better than a piece of stage trash , being a mixture of comedy , tragedy , and Mira- cle - Play ; an Angel , a Devil ...
... Thomas Lodge , in writing another extant play , entitled A Looking - Glass for London and England . This is little better than a piece of stage trash , being a mixture of comedy , tragedy , and Mira- cle - Play ; an Angel , a Devil ...
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... Thomas Lodge as joint author with Greene of a good - for - nothing play . We have one other play by him , entitled The Wounds of Civil War , and having for its subject " the true tragedies of SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES . 119.
... Thomas Lodge as joint author with Greene of a good - for - nothing play . We have one other play by him , entitled The Wounds of Civil War , and having for its subject " the true tragedies of SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES . 119.
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... Thomas Lodge entitled Rosalynd ; Euphues ' Golden Legacy . As the Tale of Gamelyn was not printed till more than a century later , it has been questioned whether Shakespeare ever saw it . Nor indeed can much be alleged as indicating ...
... Thomas Lodge entitled Rosalynd ; Euphues ' Golden Legacy . As the Tale of Gamelyn was not printed till more than a century later , it has been questioned whether Shakespeare ever saw it . Nor indeed can much be alleged as indicating ...
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... Thomas Lodge , whose Rosalynd contributed so much to the Poet's As You Like It : for it was then much the fashion for authors to prank up their matter with super- fluous erudition . Like all the surviving works of Greene , Pandosto is ...
... Thomas Lodge , whose Rosalynd contributed so much to the Poet's As You Like It : for it was then much the fashion for authors to prank up their matter with super- fluous erudition . Like all the surviving works of Greene , Pandosto is ...
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Page 438 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 48 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 39 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 210 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music.
Page 199 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Page 31 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 293 - Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 37 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 202 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 219 - In these two princely boys. They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head ; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchaf d, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.