A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil War ...: From the renaissance to the civil war. 1906-09T.F. Unwin, 1909 - English literature |
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... become char- acters - The sham Puritan : " Bartholomew Fair " Roman tragedies : " Catiline , " " Sejanus " -Care for his- torical truth - Effort to follow the classical models - Cruel comedy scenes ... ... ... ... ... ... 369 377 385 ...
... become char- acters - The sham Puritan : " Bartholomew Fair " Roman tragedies : " Catiline , " " Sejanus " -Care for his- torical truth - Effort to follow the classical models - Cruel comedy scenes ... ... ... ... ... ... 369 377 385 ...
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... becomes rarer ; excessive use of the horrible and of the obscene ... 412 Lust and murders : Marston , " Antonio and Mellida , " " Insatiate Countess , " etc. - Webster's " Duchess of Malfi " ; poetical touches - Cyril Tourneur - Ford's ...
... becomes rarer ; excessive use of the horrible and of the obscene ... 412 Lust and murders : Marston , " Antonio and Mellida , " " Insatiate Countess , " etc. - Webster's " Duchess of Malfi " ; poetical touches - Cyril Tourneur - Ford's ...
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... becoming more and more individualised and concentrated , breaking the ties which had , for centuries , united her to Rome , establishing her own form of religion , gaining a firmer belief in her own originality , power , and greatness ...
... becoming more and more individualised and concentrated , breaking the ties which had , for centuries , united her to Rome , establishing her own form of religion , gaining a firmer belief in her own originality , power , and greatness ...
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... become blind for having dared to gaze at the Queen . All these compliments had done duty before , but they were none the less compliments , and the eyes of the no longer young ruler sparkled with pleasure . These courtly amusements were ...
... become blind for having dared to gaze at the Queen . All these compliments had done duty before , but they were none the less compliments , and the eyes of the no longer young ruler sparkled with pleasure . These courtly amusements were ...
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... becoming irrepressible . The common people were about to fill , day after day , as many play- houses in London alone as there were , at the same period , in all the capitals of Europe put together . The multitude it was that paid its ...
... becoming irrepressible . The common people were about to fill , day after day , as many play- houses in London alone as there were , at the same period , in all the capitals of Europe put together . The multitude it was that paid its ...
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Page 142 - O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
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Page 421 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For* the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?
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Page 542 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 263 - O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars; now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front : his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges1 all temper, And is become the bellows, and the fan, To cool a gipsy's lust.