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... performance , its very faults are the paradoxical condition of its merits . Its great fault of being far too long was no fault in that age of leisure , and signifies little in an age when , if ever so much abbre- viated , it still would ...
... performance , its very faults are the paradoxical condition of its merits . Its great fault of being far too long was no fault in that age of leisure , and signifies little in an age when , if ever so much abbre- viated , it still would ...
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... performances in 1590 . After this date , save for his elec- tions to Parliament and his peti- tions , but little is heard of him . He is identified with the " John Lyllie " who was buried in St. Bartholomew the Less on Nov. 30 , 1606 ...
... performances in 1590 . After this date , save for his elec- tions to Parliament and his peti- tions , but little is heard of him . He is identified with the " John Lyllie " who was buried in St. Bartholomew the Less on Nov. 30 , 1606 ...
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... performance of Thomas Nash , some writers may be named who belonged more distinctly to the circle of Lodge and Greene , and whose stories , now barely readable except for curiosity's sake , en- joyed wide popularity in their own day ...
... performance of Thomas Nash , some writers may be named who belonged more distinctly to the circle of Lodge and Greene , and whose stories , now barely readable except for curiosity's sake , en- joyed wide popularity in their own day ...
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... performances on the organ , in which all less sonorous instruments , if such there be , are swallowed up and lost . The Epithalamion in particular is a performance of the class of Milton's At a Solemn Music and Dryden's great pair of ...
... performances on the organ , in which all less sonorous instruments , if such there be , are swallowed up and lost . The Epithalamion in particular is a performance of the class of Milton's At a Solemn Music and Dryden's great pair of ...
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... performance eight times repeated . There is no good reason for connecting minor pieces the poem with Shakespeare's Thrice Three Muses Mourning for the death Of Learning , late deceased in beggary . Spenser's turn for elegy was more ...
... performance eight times repeated . There is no good reason for connecting minor pieces the poem with Shakespeare's Thrice Three Muses Mourning for the death Of Learning , late deceased in beggary . Spenser's turn for elegy was more ...
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Page 209 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 202 - He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Page 35 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end: of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 237 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 175 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 322 - 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 269 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 183 - His golden locks Time hath to silver turned; O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing: Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And lovers...
Page 16 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 57 - 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 jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...