From the age of Henry VIII to the age of MiltonMacmillan, 1903 - English literature |
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... perhaps the incuriousness , of foreign criticism . No foreigner , at the end of the sixteenth century , had the smallest idea that in the middle period of that century , within twelve years of each other ( 1552- 1564 ) , six men had ...
... perhaps the incuriousness , of foreign criticism . No foreigner , at the end of the sixteenth century , had the smallest idea that in the middle period of that century , within twelve years of each other ( 1552- 1564 ) , six men had ...
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... Perhaps , when Mrs. Hooker's kinsmen assured her that her husband's posthumous writings " were not fit to be read , " Printed at London by loba Windet , dwelling at the figne of the Croffe keyes weere Powles Wbarffe , and are there to ...
... Perhaps , when Mrs. Hooker's kinsmen assured her that her husband's posthumous writings " were not fit to be read , " Printed at London by loba Windet , dwelling at the figne of the Croffe keyes weere Powles Wbarffe , and are there to ...
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... perhaps in some measure with , his sister , the subject of the famous epitaph disputed between Ben Jonson and William Browne . Hence its title , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia . It was first published in 1590. The poetry in this ...
... perhaps in some measure with , his sister , the subject of the famous epitaph disputed between Ben Jonson and William Browne . Hence its title , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia . It was first published in 1590. The poetry in this ...
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... perhaps , aided by her pen , sufficed to produce this folio volume , the English counterpart of the pastorals of Sannazaro and Montemayor . As such , it necessarily occupies a commanding position in English literature , and although a ...
... perhaps , aided by her pen , sufficed to produce this folio volume , the English counterpart of the pastorals of Sannazaro and Montemayor . As such , it necessarily occupies a commanding position in English literature , and although a ...
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... perhaps be the case with the graceful lines to Cynthia , Raleigh's poetical name for his royal mistress , lamenting the withdrawal of her favour , printed in Dowland's Music Book of 1597 , even though in a copy found in an album of ...
... perhaps be the case with the graceful lines to Cynthia , Raleigh's poetical name for his royal mistress , lamenting the withdrawal of her favour , printed in Dowland's Music Book of 1597 , even though in a copy found in an album of ...
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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...