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... less explicable that there seems no wish on the part of Chapman to represent Guise , the author as he was thought to be of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew , under an execrable aspect . The reader might therefore have been spared these ...
... less explicable that there seems no wish on the part of Chapman to represent Guise , the author as he was thought to be of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew , under an execrable aspect . The reader might therefore have been spared these ...
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... less can he have intended a political double- meaning . The resemblance between the condition of Ger- many during the Interregnum and that at the beginning of the Thirty Years ' War was in fact of too vague a cha- racter to have ...
... less can he have intended a political double- meaning . The resemblance between the condition of Ger- many during the Interregnum and that at the beginning of the Thirty Years ' War was in fact of too vague a cha- racter to have ...
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... less sion , by Randolph in his The Muse's Looking - Glass ( i . 4 ) . How sweet is the pathos , and how beautiful the verse , of the passage in which this is narrated : Your worthy sister , worthier far of heaven Than this unworthy hell ...
... less sion , by Randolph in his The Muse's Looking - Glass ( i . 4 ) . How sweet is the pathos , and how beautiful the verse , of the passage in which this is narrated : Your worthy sister , worthier far of heaven Than this unworthy hell ...
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... less , imperious upstart ' ) , are fairly amusing . The above exhaust the list of the extant dramatic works of Chapman written entirely by himself . On his Maske of the Middle Temple and Lyncolns Inne , performed at the celebration of ...
... less , imperious upstart ' ) , are fairly amusing . The above exhaust the list of the extant dramatic works of Chapman written entirely by himself . On his Maske of the Middle Temple and Lyncolns Inne , performed at the celebration of ...
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... less pleasing fashion than Chapman's with that of Jonson . Chapman he loved ; ' upon Dekker and Marston he poured forth his most vigorous vituperation . It is however due to these writers to notice them out of , as well as in their ...
... less pleasing fashion than Chapman's with that of Jonson . Chapman he loved ; ' upon Dekker and Marston he poured forth his most vigorous vituperation . It is however due to these writers to notice them out of , as well as in their ...
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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.