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... Beaumont and Fletcher's in the abundance of feminine endings to the lines , seems to indicate . In style , however , there is not much difference between this and the earlier tragedies of Chapman . Far removed from the baldness of ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's in the abundance of feminine endings to the lines , seems to indicate . In style , however , there is not much difference between this and the earlier tragedies of Chapman . Far removed from the baldness of ...
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... Beaumont ( who wrote that of The Inner Temple and Gray's Inn 2 ) on this occasion ; but though there was never a finer subject for a composition of the kind , it cannot be said that Chapman's effort is in any way remarkable ; the lyrics ...
... Beaumont ( who wrote that of The Inner Temple and Gray's Inn 2 ) on this occasion ; but though there was never a finer subject for a composition of the kind , it cannot be said that Chapman's effort is in any way remarkable ; the lyrics ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher 2. But Chapman's line in general holds the mean between the dissolved sweetness of these poets and the self - contained strength of Marlowe in his earliest works ; and in versification , as in that which informs ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher 2. But Chapman's line in general holds the mean between the dissolved sweetness of these poets and the self - contained strength of Marlowe in his earliest works ; and in versification , as in that which informs ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's The Honest Man's Fortune ( iv . 2 ) . Tieck revived the story of Fortunatus as part of his Phantasms ( vol . iii , 1816 ) . DEKKER'S OLD FORTUNATUS AND SATIROMASTIX . 41 choice of the 40 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
... Beaumont and Fletcher's The Honest Man's Fortune ( iv . 2 ) . Tieck revived the story of Fortunatus as part of his Phantasms ( vol . iii , 1816 ) . DEKKER'S OLD FORTUNATUS AND SATIROMASTIX . 41 choice of the 40 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
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... Beaumont and Fletcher's Works , iv . 302 . ' When the highways grow thin with travellers , And few portmanteaus stirring , as all trades Have their dead time we see , thievery poor takings , Then do I take my inn , and those curmudgeons ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher's Works , iv . 302 . ' When the highways grow thin with travellers , And few portmanteaus stirring , as all trades Have their dead time we see , thievery poor takings , Then do I take my inn , and those curmudgeons ...
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Page 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Page 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Page 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.