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... manners and usages exhibited in one of his plays has been naturally enough made the basis of a conjecture that he passed several years in Germany . From ten to He ' See Memoir , pp . vi - vii . In his poem of Euthymiae Raptus , or , The ...
... manners and usages exhibited in one of his plays has been naturally enough made the basis of a conjecture that he passed several years in Germany . From ten to He ' See Memoir , pp . vi - vii . In his poem of Euthymiae Raptus , or , The ...
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... manners and customs ( though not invariably correct ) , and of the German language , of which it gives evidence ... manner of the last act . The tragedy of Alphonsus is in any case a very indifferent piece of handiwork . Its subject is ...
... manners and customs ( though not invariably correct ) , and of the German language , of which it gives evidence ... manner of the last act . The tragedy of Alphonsus is in any case a very indifferent piece of handiwork . Its subject is ...
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... manners ; but these have been so well elucidated by its German editor , that I need only refer to his guidance those interested in so unique an illustration of the intimate connexion which existed in this age between the two countries ...
... manners ; but these have been so well elucidated by its German editor , that I need only refer to his guidance those interested in so unique an illustration of the intimate connexion which existed in this age between the two countries ...
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... manners of his own days with the stolidity of the ' tobacco- gentleman ' are quite in Jonson's manner ; much of the dialogue is in Lyly's , but freer in form . 1 For it is written , ' she says , ' we must pass to perfection through all ...
... manners of his own days with the stolidity of the ' tobacco- gentleman ' are quite in Jonson's manner ; much of the dialogue is in Lyly's , but freer in form . 1 For it is written , ' she says , ' we must pass to perfection through all ...
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... Manners for the Drury Lane stage as late as 1775 , having been revived after the Restoration under a more significant local title in 1685. Cf. Geneste , i . 441 ; v . 481 . 2 Printed in vol . vi . of Dyce's edition of Shirley's Dramatic ...
... Manners for the Drury Lane stage as late as 1775 , having been revived after the Restoration under a more significant local title in 1685. Cf. Geneste , i . 441 ; v . 481 . 2 Printed in vol . vi . of Dyce's edition of Shirley's Dramatic ...
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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.