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... seems here to imply the composition of English verse in Latin measures , of which Gabriel Harvey was proud to be considered as the primus Artifex . Hence the following egotistic boast in one of his controversial strug- gles with Nash ...
... seems here to imply the composition of English verse in Latin measures , of which Gabriel Harvey was proud to be considered as the primus Artifex . Hence the following egotistic boast in one of his controversial strug- gles with Nash ...
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... seem to have a natural propensity to torture such animals as are within their power , this disposition should be checked as soon as observed , as that which perhaps began through thoughtlessness , or ignorance , may by negligence grow ...
... seem to have a natural propensity to torture such animals as are within their power , this disposition should be checked as soon as observed , as that which perhaps began through thoughtlessness , or ignorance , may by negligence grow ...
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... seem to have been so fully felt by the author , and he appears in his preface to have formed such just ideas of the duties of an historian , that we cannot better commence our review of one of the most interesting periods of the British ...
... seem to have been so fully felt by the author , and he appears in his preface to have formed such just ideas of the duties of an historian , that we cannot better commence our review of one of the most interesting periods of the British ...
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... seems no reason to doubt . Indeed , whatever might have been the bent of the author's mind at an early period of life , he has certainly taken effectual care , that his fancy , as a poet , shall not invade his province as an his- torian ...
... seems no reason to doubt . Indeed , whatever might have been the bent of the author's mind at an early period of life , he has certainly taken effectual care , that his fancy , as a poet , shall not invade his province as an his- torian ...
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... seems to have displayed a high degree of personal bravery , and an ardent desire to contend for the crown of his ... seem to have laboured under peculiar difficulties on that day . By the official return in the appendix , ( dated at ...
... seems to have displayed a high degree of personal bravery , and an ardent desire to contend for the crown of his ... seem to have laboured under peculiar difficulties on that day . By the official return in the appendix , ( dated at ...
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Página 388 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 45 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 301 - For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames : I shewe his first beginning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Rivers throughout Englande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte names, and right passage, &c.
Página 406 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 318 - Behold the mighty Hector's wife ! Some haughty Greek, who lives thy tears to see, Embitters all thy woes, by naming me. The thoughts of glory past, and present shame, A thousand griefs shall waken at the name ! May I lie cold before that dreadful day, 590 Press'd with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Página 318 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Página 7 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to' Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Página 302 - to represent all the moral virtues, assigning to every virtue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same, in whose actions and feats of arms and chivalry the operations of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to be expressed, and the vices and unruly appetites that oppose themselves against the same, to be beaten down and overcome.
Página 244 - Of women's looks ; but digged myself a cave, Where I, my fire, my cattle, and my bed, Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some...
Página 300 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge...