The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): Mydas. Mother Bombie. The woman in the moone. Love's metamorphosis. Notes

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J.R. Smith, 1858
 

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Page 274 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Page 274 - Nothing can be more interesting than this little book, containing a lively picture of the opinions and conversations of one of the most eminent scholars and most distinguished patriots England has produced.
Page 267 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Page 274 - The Vision of Piers Ploughman' is one of the most precious and interesting monuments of the English Language and Literature, and also of the social and political condition of the country during the fourteenth century. . . . Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about tbe year 1362.
Page 273 - A poet of distinguished celebrity in his own day, no less admired for the versatility of his genins in tragedy and comedy, than dreaded for the poignancy of his satire ; in the former department the colleague of Jonson, in the latter the antagonist of Hall."— Rev.
Page 276 - For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, - as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Page 3 - Time hath confounded our minds, our minds the matter; but all cometh to this pass, that what heretofore hath been served in several dishes for a feast, is now minced in a charger for a Gallimaufry. If we present a mingle-mangle, our fault is to be excused, because the whole world is become an Hodge-podge.
Page 276 - FOURTH EDITION. With some Additions and an Index. Portrait and cuts. 4s 1857 CONTENTS :— Day Fatality, Fatalities of Families and Places, Portents, Omens, Dreams, Apparitions, Voices, Impulses...
Page 60 - SING to Apollo, god of day, Whose golden beams with morning play, And make her eyes so brightly shine, Aurora's face is called divine ; Sing to Phoebus and that throne Of diamonds which he sits upon...
Page 251 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and

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