A manual of English literatureLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1877 - 423 páginas |
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Página ix
... Holinshed , Camden , Bacon , Speed , Knolles , Raleigh ; Foxe's ' Martyrs .'- THEOLOGIANS , 76-80 : Jewel , Hooker , Parsons , Staple- ton , James I. , Andrewes ; Translation of the Bible . - PHILOSOPHY , 82 : Francis Bacon ...
... Holinshed , Camden , Bacon , Speed , Knolles , Raleigh ; Foxe's ' Martyrs .'- THEOLOGIANS , 76-80 : Jewel , Hooker , Parsons , Staple- ton , James I. , Andrewes ; Translation of the Bible . - PHILOSOPHY , 82 : Francis Bacon ...
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... Holinshed , whose authority was Geoffrey of Monmouth . According to Geoffrey , Kymbelinus ' was king of the Britons at the time of the Christian era , and had two sons , Guiderius and Arviragus . The story of Imogen is borrowed from ...
... Holinshed , whose authority was Geoffrey of Monmouth . According to Geoffrey , Kymbelinus ' was king of the Britons at the time of the Christian era , and had two sons , Guiderius and Arviragus . The story of Imogen is borrowed from ...
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... Holinshed's history ; Holinshed took it from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle . In an amplified form it occurs in Lagamon's Brut . Spenser also tells the story in the second book of the Faerie Queene , Canto 10. According to Geoffrey ...
... Holinshed's history ; Holinshed took it from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle . In an amplified form it occurs in Lagamon's Brut . Spenser also tells the story in the second book of the Faerie Queene , Canto 10. According to Geoffrey ...
Página 205
... Holinshed's Chronicle . ( 3 ) Henry V. Probable date 1599. The sources of this play are the same as those for Henry IV . ( 4 , 5 , 6 ) Henry VI . In three parts . Part I. was first printed , so far as is known , in the folio of 1623 ...
... Holinshed's Chronicle . ( 3 ) Henry V. Probable date 1599. The sources of this play are the same as those for Henry IV . ( 4 , 5 , 6 ) Henry VI . In three parts . Part I. was first printed , so far as is known , in the folio of 1623 ...
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... Holinshed's Chronicle . The picture of Richard , with its hardly relieved blackness , was borrowed by Holinshed from Sir Thomas More's History of Ed- ward V. ( ante , ch . ii . § 33 ) . More had strong Lancastrian sympathies and ...
... Holinshed's Chronicle . The picture of Richard , with its hardly relieved blackness , was borrowed by Holinshed from Sir Thomas More's History of Ed- ward V. ( ante , ch . ii . § 33 ) . More had strong Lancastrian sympathies and ...
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Página 469 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 280 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 371 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 393 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 230 - Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping stage Which since thy flight from hence hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light!
Página 247 - With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Página 400 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Página 408 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 188 - By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Página 361 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...