The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth CenturyTh. Ewing, 1781 - 470 páginas |
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... Shakespeare's Induction of the Tinker . Oc- cafional anecdotes of Antony Munday and Henry Chettle . Ed- wards's fongs . SECTION XXXV . p . 298 . Tuffer . Remarkable circumftances of his life . His Husbandrie , one of our earliest ...
... Shakespeare's Induction of the Tinker . Oc- cafional anecdotes of Antony Munday and Henry Chettle . Ed- wards's fongs . SECTION XXXV . p . 298 . Tuffer . Remarkable circumftances of his life . His Husbandrie , one of our earliest ...
Página viii
... Shakespeare's Tempeft . Mifcellaneous Collec- tions of tranflated novels before the year 1600. Pantheon . Novels arbitrarily licenced or fuppreffed . Reformation of the English Prefs . SECTION XLIII . p . 490 . General view and ...
... Shakespeare's Tempeft . Mifcellaneous Collec- tions of tranflated novels before the year 1600. Pantheon . Novels arbitrarily licenced or fuppreffed . Reformation of the English Prefs . SECTION XLIII . p . 490 . General view and ...
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... Shakespeare is thought to have formed his play on this story from North's tranflation of Amyot's unauthentic French Plu- tarch , published at London in 1579. Montfaucon , among the manuscripts of monfieur Lancelot , recites an old piece ...
... Shakespeare is thought to have formed his play on this story from North's tranflation of Amyot's unauthentic French Plu- tarch , published at London in 1579. Montfaucon , among the manuscripts of monfieur Lancelot , recites an old piece ...
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... Shakespeare's TITUS ADRONI- cus , an incident in Dryden's , or Boccace's , TANCRED and SIGISMONDA , and the catastrophe of the beautiful metrical romance of the LADY of FAGUEL , are founded on the fame horrid ideas of inhuman ...
... Shakespeare's TITUS ADRONI- cus , an incident in Dryden's , or Boccace's , TANCRED and SIGISMONDA , and the catastrophe of the beautiful metrical romance of the LADY of FAGUEL , are founded on the fame horrid ideas of inhuman ...
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... Shakespeare has a beautiful comparison on the traditionary notion , that the toad has a rich gem inclosed within its head . Milton gives his ferpent eyes of carbuncle ' . CHAP . cvi . The three fellow - travellers , who have only one ...
... Shakespeare has a beautiful comparison on the traditionary notion , that the toad has a rich gem inclosed within its head . Milton gives his ferpent eyes of carbuncle ' . CHAP . cvi . The three fellow - travellers , who have only one ...
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Página xxx - ... Detested wretch !" — but scarce his speech began, When the strange partner seem'd no longer man His youthful face grew more serenely sweet ; His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair ; Celestial...
Página 492 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Página 82 - Was call'd the merry fiend of Edmonton. If any here make doubt of such a name, In Edmonton yet fresh unto this day, Fix'd in the wall of that old ancient church, His monument remaineth to be seen : His memory yet in the mouths of men, That whilst he liv'd he could deceive the devil.
Página 228 - With reckless hand in grave doth cover it, Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light, but in the ground ylain, In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought, As he had never into the world been brought.
Página 143 - These were festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans.
Página 496 - ... under certain conditions, and for a limited duration of time. It was actually one of the pretended feats of...
Página lxxii - They pretended that he appeared and fought with irresjstible fury, completely armed, and mounted on a stately white horse, in most of their engagements with the Moors ; and because, by his superior prowess in these bloody conflicts, he was supposed to have freed the Spaniards from paying the annual tribute of a hundred Christian virgins to their infidel enemies, they represented him as a professed and powerful champion of distressed damsels. This apotheosis of chivalry in the person of their own...
Página 336 - Our maker therfore at these dayes shall not follow Piers plowman nor Gower nor Lydgate nor yet Chaucer, for their language is now out of vse with vs...
Página 138 - Those seats, whence long excluded, ttiou must mourn : That gate, for ever barr'd to thy return : Wilt thou not then bewail ill-fated love, And hate a banish'd man, condemn'd in woods to rove?
Página 69 - These ladies doth enspire) embraceth all. The Graces in the Muses weed, delite To lead them forth, that men in maze they fall. It...