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... complete transformation in all parts of Europe . At the moment of deepest decadence it had reached very much the same position which it had reached , at various moments , in the complete decline of medievalism . In England , for ...
... complete transformation in all parts of Europe . At the moment of deepest decadence it had reached very much the same position which it had reached , at various moments , in the complete decline of medievalism . In England , for ...
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... complete decline and fall of the exhausted Jacobean drama . In 1642 only one dramatist of the old school , Shirley , was still alive , and of his plays all the most important had already been acted . It was no serious attack on ...
... complete decline and fall of the exhausted Jacobean drama . In 1642 only one dramatist of the old school , Shirley , was still alive , and of his plays all the most important had already been acted . It was no serious attack on ...
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... complete failure of this piece , which even contemporary critics allowed had " a foolish plot , and was very profane . " Eager to restore his reputation , he took great pains in writing his next drama , the tragedy of Tyrannic Love ...
... complete failure of this piece , which even contemporary critics allowed had " a foolish plot , and was very profane . " Eager to restore his reputation , he took great pains in writing his next drama , the tragedy of Tyrannic Love ...
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... he was broken in spirits and resolve , and fell , at the accession of James II . , into complete destitution . He spent his last days in a spunging - house on II LEE 57 Tower Hill ; venturing out at the 56 CHAP . DRAMA AFTER THE ...
... he was broken in spirits and resolve , and fell , at the accession of James II . , into complete destitution . He spent his last days in a spunging - house on II LEE 57 Tower Hill ; venturing out at the 56 CHAP . DRAMA AFTER THE ...
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... complete treatment of the phenomena of the human mind , of their mutual relations , of their causes and limits . " Setting apart the extraordinary merits of Locke's contributions to thought , as a mere writer he may be said to exhibit ...
... complete treatment of the phenomena of the human mind , of their mutual relations , of their causes and limits . " Setting apart the extraordinary merits of Locke's contributions to thought , as a mere writer he may be said to exhibit ...
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Page 233 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 125 - Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
Page 229 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 290 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 294 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 340 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
Page 121 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 60 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 231 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome— at an inn.
Page 322 - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.