English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 10Cassell and Company, 1893 - English literature |
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Barnabe Barnes battle Bellimperia Ben Jonson Bolingbroke brings brother Brutus Cæsar called Cassius comedy crown Daniel daughter death doth dramatist Drayton Duke Earl edition Edward Elizabeth England English Falstaff father Fifth Act followed Fourth Act France French Gabriel Harvey Gaveston Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give Greene's Harvey hath heaven Henry VI Hieronimo honour John Shakespeare Juliet Julius Cæsar killed King Henry King Henry IV King Richard king's live London Lord Marlowe Marlowe's merry mind Mortimer murder Nash night old play pamphlet Philip Henslowe piece poem poets Prince printed published quarto Queen reign repentance Robert Greene satire says scene Second Act Shakespeare shows Sir John Sir John Oldcastle sonnets soul Spanish Tragedy Spenser spirit stanza story sweet tale Tamburlaine tells thee Third Act Thomas Thomas Nash thou thought touch Tragedy true verse wife William words writing written young youth
Popular passages
Page 278 - His industry is upstairs and down-stairs ; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife ' Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Page 237 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark'....
Page 242 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 293 - Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience...
Page 142 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 243 - Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Enter Musicians. Come, ho ! and wake Diana with a hymn : With sweetest touches...
Page 149 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 423 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 133 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Page 273 - My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.