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... Robert Greene's , under the title of " Greene's Groatsworth of Wit , bought with a Million of Repentance , " in which the author speaks harshly of Marlowe , and still more so of Shakspeare , who was then rising into fame . Both these ...
... Robert Greene's , under the title of " Greene's Groatsworth of Wit , bought with a Million of Repentance , " in which the author speaks harshly of Marlowe , and still more so of Shakspeare , who was then rising into fame . Both these ...
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... Robert Greene , Thomas Dekker , and Thomas Nash ; men possessed of genius , learning , and unquestioned ability , as poets , satirists , and critics ; but excessively debauched in their manners , intemperate in their pas- sions , and ...
... Robert Greene , Thomas Dekker , and Thomas Nash ; men possessed of genius , learning , and unquestioned ability , as poets , satirists , and critics ; but excessively debauched in their manners , intemperate in their pas- sions , and ...
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... Robert Greene and other Poets by him abused . Imprinted by John Wolfe , 1592 ; " a very curious work , which we shall have occasion to quote hereafter ; and Nash's " Have with you to Saffron - Walden , or Gabriel Harvey's hunt is up ...
... Robert Greene and other Poets by him abused . Imprinted by John Wolfe , 1592 ; " a very curious work , which we shall have occasion to quote hereafter ; and Nash's " Have with you to Saffron - Walden , or Gabriel Harvey's hunt is up ...
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... Robert Greene , whose vices he shared , and with whom he acted as the unre- lenting scourge of the Harveys . This terror of his opponents , this Aretine of England , though most remarkable for his numerous prose pamphlets , was also a ...
... Robert Greene , whose vices he shared , and with whom he acted as the unre- lenting scourge of the Harveys . This terror of his opponents , this Aretine of England , though most remarkable for his numerous prose pamphlets , was also a ...
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... Robert Greene , the author of near fifty productions , * the history is so highly monitory and interesting as to demand more than a cursory notice . It affords , indeed , one of the most melancholy proofs of learning , taste , and ...
... Robert Greene , the author of near fifty productions , * the history is so highly monitory and interesting as to demand more than a cursory notice . It affords , indeed , one of the most melancholy proofs of learning , taste , and ...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on ... Nathan Drake No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 378 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 176 - Alack, alack! is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad: O!
Page 412 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 174 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 377 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go...
Page 495 - ... the seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; and on old Hiems' thin and icy crown an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds is, as in mockery, set...
Page 108 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 498 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you...
Page 612 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 580 - ARIEL'S song. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.