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... writer of the first regular comedy , and ending with Sheridan . The want of such a collection has long been felt , and that it has never been supplied before must occasion sur- prise to all readers who are acquainted with the riches we ...
... writer of the first regular comedy , and ending with Sheridan . The want of such a collection has long been felt , and that it has never been supplied before must occasion sur- prise to all readers who are acquainted with the riches we ...
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... writers , and others will be found to contribute less than might be looked for from their celebrity ; but in all such cases a satisfactory explanation can be given . Marlowe's plays , for example , do not contain a single song , and ...
... writers , and others will be found to contribute less than might be looked for from their celebrity ; but in all such cases a satisfactory explanation can be given . Marlowe's plays , for example , do not contain a single song , and ...
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... writers of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century over their successors is strikingly exhibited in these productions . The dramatic songs of the age of Elizabeth and James I. are distinguished as much by their ...
... writers of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century over their successors is strikingly exhibited in these productions . The dramatic songs of the age of Elizabeth and James I. are distinguished as much by their ...
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... writer ; and in 1553 and 1554 he was ordered to prepare an entertainment for the feast of the coronation of Queen Mary , -Dialogues and Interludes to be performed at court . About this time he was appointed head master of Westminster ...
... writer ; and in 1553 and 1554 he was ordered to prepare an entertainment for the feast of the coronation of Queen Mary , -Dialogues and Interludes to be performed at court . About this time he was appointed head master of Westminster ...
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... writers assert that he was born at North Mimms , near St. Alban's , Hertfordshire , where the family had some property , and at which place he lived after he left college ; while a MS . in the possession of the Earl of Ellesmere ...
... writers assert that he was born at North Mimms , near St. Alban's , Hertfordshire , where the family had some property , and at which place he lived after he left college ; while a MS . in the possession of the Earl of Ellesmere ...
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Page 105 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 94 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 121 - DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 89 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 87 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 89 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 81 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 98 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 91 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 80 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...