First Steps in English LiteratureHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 233 páginas |
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... dramatists , but all writers of fiction . THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE , 1611 , is a translation made by order of King James I. , during the years 1607-1611 , by a body of forty- seven divines . They were directed to take the ...
... dramatists , but all writers of fiction . THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE , 1611 , is a translation made by order of King James I. , during the years 1607-1611 , by a body of forty- seven divines . They were directed to take the ...
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... dramatists who wrote together , as was then somewhat the fashion , and as we have now examples in Erck- mann - Chatrian in France . John Fletcher was born in 1576 , and Francis Beaumont in 1586. They were both educated at Cambridge ...
... dramatists who wrote together , as was then somewhat the fashion , and as we have now examples in Erck- mann - Chatrian in France . John Fletcher was born in 1576 , and Francis Beaumont in 1586. They were both educated at Cambridge ...
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... dramatists of this period . He appears to have been a melancholy man of retiring habits , and his writings are marked by pathos , intensity , and sweet . 6 ness , though deficient in variety . His powers are Italian Influence . 81.
... dramatists of this period . He appears to have been a melancholy man of retiring habits , and his writings are marked by pathos , intensity , and sweet . 6 ness , though deficient in variety . His powers are Italian Influence . 81.
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... dramatists . " RICHARD BAXTER , 1615-1691 , was a voluminous writer , and one of the most eminent non - conformist divines of the day . During the civil war he sym- pathized with Parliament , but being a zealous ad- vocate of regular ...
... dramatists . " RICHARD BAXTER , 1615-1691 , was a voluminous writer , and one of the most eminent non - conformist divines of the day . During the civil war he sym- pathized with Parliament , but being a zealous ad- vocate of regular ...
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... Dramatists of the Restora- tion should be read by all who desire to study this period . GILBERT BURNET , 1643-1715 , was bishop of Salisbury , one of our most voluminous writers , and at the same time both active as a politician and ...
... Dramatists of the Restora- tion should be read by all who desire to study this period . GILBERT BURNET , 1643-1715 , was bishop of Salisbury , one of our most voluminous writers , and at the same time both active as a politician and ...
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Página 125 - As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky, Surveys around her, in the...
Página 129 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Página 105 - So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool.
Página 80 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with His blood ; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light: Thy torch doth show the way.
Página 93 - Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love.
Página 129 - What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity ! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
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Página 115 - Don Quixote, and loved that dear old Sancho, Gay lived, and was lapped in cotton, and had his plate of chicken, and his saucer of cream, and frisked, and barked, and wheezed, and grew fat, and so ended.* He became very melancholy and lazy, sadly plethoric, and only occasionally diverting in his latter days.
Página 138 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 39 - And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.