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... writer for the stage ; for he is mentioned with praise both as a tragic and as a comic writer in Meres Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) . During the next seven years he seems , with the exception of one other comedy , to have written nothing ...
... writer for the stage ; for he is mentioned with praise both as a tragic and as a comic writer in Meres Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) . During the next seven years he seems , with the exception of one other comedy , to have written nothing ...
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... writer in the composition of the tragedy . I should with Elze incline to the latter hypothesis , and indeed should be willing to go further , and suppose it possible that the body of the play as well as the passages in German were ...
... writer in the composition of the tragedy . I should with Elze incline to the latter hypothesis , and indeed should be willing to go further , and suppose it possible that the body of the play as well as the passages in German were ...
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... writers seem never to have tired 3 , as well as the burlesque declaration of divorce read out by the Notary 4 , furnish instances of comic writing of the most entertaining variety . And in such a passage as this— How blind is Pride ...
... writers seem never to have tired 3 , as well as the burlesque declaration of divorce read out by the Notary 4 , furnish instances of comic writing of the most entertaining variety . And in such a passage as this— How blind is Pride ...
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... writers to notice them out of , as well as in their Jonsonian aliases of Demetrius and Crispinus . 1 I have noted this more particularly in All Fooles . 2 Dr. Elze ( u . s . , p . 37 ) observes that in Alphonsus ' the archaic ...
... writers to notice them out of , as well as in their Jonsonian aliases of Demetrius and Crispinus . 1 I have noted this more particularly in All Fooles . 2 Dr. Elze ( u . s . , p . 37 ) observes that in Alphonsus ' the archaic ...
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... writer but Dekker the next in date bears the odd title If it be not good , the Divel is in it ( pr . 1612 ) ... writers . I shall not attempt to determine the relative share of his contributions , and of that of his coadjutors ...
... writer but Dekker the next in date bears the odd title If it be not good , the Divel is in it ( pr . 1612 ) ... writers . I shall not attempt to determine the relative share of his contributions , and of that of his coadjutors ...
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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.