Lectures on English poetrySmith, Elder & Company, 1830 - 543 páginas |
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... Jonson , Fletcher , Massinger , Lope de Vega , Calderon , Marino , these are bright names , which cannot be lost , even in the overwhelming splendour of those which we have already mentioned . In Spain and England , Literature , and ...
... Jonson , Fletcher , Massinger , Lope de Vega , Calderon , Marino , these are bright names , which cannot be lost , even in the overwhelming splendour of those which we have already mentioned . In Spain and England , Literature , and ...
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... Jonson fought in the English Army against the Spaniards in the Netherlands , and Lope de Vega accompanied the Spanish Ar- mada for the invasion of England . Shakspeare and Cervantes , the profoundest masters of the human heart 14 LECTURES ...
... Jonson fought in the English Army against the Spaniards in the Netherlands , and Lope de Vega accompanied the Spanish Ar- mada for the invasion of England . Shakspeare and Cervantes , the profoundest masters of the human heart 14 LECTURES ...
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... Jonson , Inigo Jones , and other native Poets and Artists ; and , amongst the crimes with which he was charged by his enemies , was one which , at the present day , we cannot judge to be quite un- pardonable , namely , -that the volumes ...
... Jonson , Inigo Jones , and other native Poets and Artists ; and , amongst the crimes with which he was charged by his enemies , was one which , at the present day , we cannot judge to be quite un- pardonable , namely , -that the volumes ...
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... Jonson commonly wrote the Poetry , Lawes composed the Music , and Inigo Jones designed the decorations . Had Charles long continued to sway the English sceptre , there is no doubt that Literature and the Arts , but espe- cially the ...
... Jonson commonly wrote the Poetry , Lawes composed the Music , and Inigo Jones designed the decorations . Had Charles long continued to sway the English sceptre , there is no doubt that Literature and the Arts , but espe- cially the ...
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... Jonson , and others of their contemporaries , we meet with occasional instances of this fault , but in none of them is it mixed up so essentially with the entire stamina and spirit of the Drama , as it is in Beau- mont and Fletcher ...
... Jonson , and others of their contemporaries , we meet with occasional instances of this fault , but in none of them is it mixed up so essentially with the entire stamina and spirit of the Drama , as it is in Beau- mont and Fletcher ...
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Página 93 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 204 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Página 498 - And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Página 370 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Página 141 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Página 196 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Página xiv - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 4 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Página 198 - And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay ! And wilt thou leave me thus ? That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among ; And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay...