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... Elze's Introduction to Alphonsus Emperor of Germany , p . 31 of the edi- tion of the play cited below . Elze , however , himself prefers the supposition CHAPMAN . 3 twenty years of his life otherwise remain 2 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
... Elze's Introduction to Alphonsus Emperor of Germany , p . 31 of the edi- tion of the play cited below . Elze , however , himself prefers the supposition CHAPMAN . 3 twenty years of his life otherwise remain 2 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
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... tion . Henry IV of France was still reigning when they were produced , so that they are among the few Elisabethan dramas we possess relating to what may be called contem- porary historical events . It has already been stated that their ...
... tion . Henry IV of France was still reigning when they were produced , so that they are among the few Elisabethan dramas we possess relating to what may be called contem- porary historical events . It has already been stated that their ...
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... tion . It exemplifies in the persons of the real widow Eudora and the self - supposed widow Cynthia the hollow- ness of female declarations of fidelity . The tempter in the former case is ' Tharsalio the wooer , ' an energetic person ...
... tion . It exemplifies in the persons of the real widow Eudora and the self - supposed widow Cynthia the hollow- ness of female declarations of fidelity . The tempter in the former case is ' Tharsalio the wooer , ' an energetic person ...
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... tion , engages herself to marry a knight , Sir Petronel Flash . Sir Petronel however is a mere ' thirty pound knight , ' and a chevalier d'industrie to boot , or in the phraseology of the day , a ' knight adventurer . ' While his bride ...
... tion , engages herself to marry a knight , Sir Petronel Flash . Sir Petronel however is a mere ' thirty pound knight , ' and a chevalier d'industrie to boot , or in the phraseology of the day , a ' knight adventurer . ' While his bride ...
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... tion of a Tucca in fact only amounts to praise in disguise . Altogether the effort is , from a literary point of view , little better than contemptible ; and the success with which it seems to have met cannot be attributed to its ...
... tion of a Tucca in fact only amounts to praise in disguise . Altogether the effort is , from a literary point of view , little better than contemptible ; and the success with which it seems to have met cannot be attributed to its ...
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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.