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Page 53
... Whitgift and Bancroft , who exer- cised the censorship as Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London . The poem unmistakeably shows Marston to have been a reader of Italian poetry . 53 His enter- tainments . down to us ( Antonio and.
... Whitgift and Bancroft , who exer- cised the censorship as Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London . The poem unmistakeably shows Marston to have been a reader of Italian poetry . 53 His enter- tainments . down to us ( Antonio and.
Page 55
... Italian source 2 ; but it is not of course to this proba- bility that I refer in charging the author with plagiarism . The Second of the two Parts of which the play ( though it is of no great length ) consists is in manner of treatment ...
... Italian source 2 ; but it is not of course to this proba- bility that I refer in charging the author with plagiarism . The Second of the two Parts of which the play ( though it is of no great length ) consists is in manner of treatment ...
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... Italian Powers against the 1 These are the opening lines ( phrases in which are ridiculed by Ben Jonson , and of which I leave the spelling intact ) — • The rawish danke of clumzie winter ramps The fluent summers vaine ; and drizling ...
... Italian Powers against the 1 These are the opening lines ( phrases in which are ridiculed by Ben Jonson , and of which I leave the spelling intact ) — • The rawish danke of clumzie winter ramps The fluent summers vaine ; and drizling ...
Page 112
... Italy , the fourth to Ireland . How their sister likewise went forth disguised as a page . How the brothers , after undergoing adventures of the most stirring sort , all meet their sister and their father at the siege of Jerusalem , and ...
... Italy , the fourth to Ireland . How their sister likewise went forth disguised as a page . How the brothers , after undergoing adventures of the most stirring sort , all meet their sister and their father at the siege of Jerusalem , and ...
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... Italian version 1 . A Challenge for Beautie ( printed 1636 ) is a romantic comedy with a sufficiently interesting plot , upon the whole well carried out , though rather lengthy in its close . The proud Isabella Queen of Portugal ...
... Italian version 1 . A Challenge for Beautie ( printed 1636 ) is a romantic comedy with a sufficiently interesting plot , upon the whole well carried out , though rather lengthy in its close . The proud Isabella Queen of Portugal ...
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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.