1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 - American literature |
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... play- writing . In his first Prologue he spoke contemptuously of such as made poetry a trade , and he took more than ... play house , where was acted the first time " Tis Pity She's a Whore , " a simple play and ill acted , only it was ...
... play- writing . In his first Prologue he spoke contemptuously of such as made poetry a trade , and he took more than ... play house , where was acted the first time " Tis Pity She's a Whore , " a simple play and ill acted , only it was ...
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... playing with edged tools , and knowing the use of poisoned weapons . - HAZLITT , WILLIAM , 1820 , Lec- tures on the Literature of the Age of Eliza beth , p . 136 . It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the ...
... playing with edged tools , and knowing the use of poisoned weapons . - HAZLITT , WILLIAM , 1820 , Lec- tures on the Literature of the Age of Eliza beth , p . 136 . It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the ...
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... play is repulsive ; it affords the most charac- teristic example of that straining after the fantastic and extraordinary , which marked the close of a literary period that seemed to have exhausted the simpler possibilities of tragedy ...
... play is repulsive ; it affords the most charac- teristic example of that straining after the fantastic and extraordinary , which marked the close of a literary period that seemed to have exhausted the simpler possibilities of tragedy ...
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... play ; Mulciber , leave thy anvil , and be trim , Comb thy black muzzle , be no longer grim ; Mercury , be quick , with mirth furnish the heavens ; Jove , this day let all run at six and sevens ; And , Ganymede , be nimble , to the brim ...
... play ; Mulciber , leave thy anvil , and be trim , Comb thy black muzzle , be no longer grim ; Mercury , be quick , with mirth furnish the heavens ; Jove , this day let all run at six and sevens ; And , Ganymede , be nimble , to the brim ...
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... play of " Love's Sacrifice " is to me intolerable . In the literal and genuine sense of the word , it is utterly indecent , unseemly and unfit for handling . The conception is essentially foul because it is essentially false ; and in ...
... play of " Love's Sacrifice " is to me intolerable . In the literal and genuine sense of the word , it is utterly indecent , unseemly and unfit for handling . The conception is essentially foul because it is essentially false ; and in ...
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Page 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Page 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Page 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Page 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Page 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.