A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 páginas |
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... SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE AND HIS FELLOW DRAMATISTS 25 39 . 64 • 90 106 VIII . THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : FROM THE DEATH ELIZABETH TO THE RESTORATION OF VII . IX . THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : THE RESTORATION X. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY : THE ...
... SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE AND HIS FELLOW DRAMATISTS 25 39 . 64 • 90 106 VIII . THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : FROM THE DEATH ELIZABETH TO THE RESTORATION OF VII . IX . THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : THE RESTORATION X. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY : THE ...
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... SHAKESPEARE • 107 From the Chandos portrait SIR FRANCIS BACON 132 From an engraving by I. Houbraken JOHN MILTON 140 From an engraving by Humphreys after the Faithorne portrait JOHN DRYDEN 164 JOSEPH ADDISON 182 From a painting by G ...
... SHAKESPEARE • 107 From the Chandos portrait SIR FRANCIS BACON 132 From an engraving by I. Houbraken JOHN MILTON 140 From an engraving by Humphreys after the Faithorne portrait JOHN DRYDEN 164 JOSEPH ADDISON 182 From a painting by G ...
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... Shakespeare had drawn him . The growth of the love - passion in Cressida's heart is traced through its gradual stages with a truth and insight entirely new in English poetry . The " background " of the poem is painted with the most ...
... Shakespeare had drawn him . The growth of the love - passion in Cressida's heart is traced through its gradual stages with a truth and insight entirely new in English poetry . The " background " of the poem is painted with the most ...
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... Shakespeare's among them , were to arise . Southwark was the place of departure and arrival for all South - of - England travel , and especially for pilgrimages to the world - renowned shrine of Thomas - à - Becket , at Canterbury . A ...
... Shakespeare's among them , were to arise . Southwark was the place of departure and arrival for all South - of - England travel , and especially for pilgrimages to the world - renowned shrine of Thomas - à - Becket , at Canterbury . A ...
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... Shakespeare afterward presented in one of his dramas : which one ? Describe briefly the subject of " Piers Plowman . " What changes does the character of Piers the Plowman undergo in the course of the poem ? In what respects is ...
... Shakespeare afterward presented in one of his dramas : which one ? Describe briefly the subject of " Piers Plowman . " What changes does the character of Piers the Plowman undergo in the course of the poem ? In what respects is ...
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Página 79 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 196 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 108 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," 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.
Página 256 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Página 280 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Página 192 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Página 203 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us; because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Página 136 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 100 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Página 110 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.