A History of English LiteratureJohn Buchan T. Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1923 - 675 sidor |
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... comedy , as Meredith defines it : " the singular scene of charity issuing of disdain under the stroke of honourable laughter . " But his comedy is not the art of the stage . " The true dramatist has a special relation to his personages ...
... comedy , as Meredith defines it : " the singular scene of charity issuing of disdain under the stroke of honourable laughter . " But his comedy is not the art of the stage . " The true dramatist has a special relation to his personages ...
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... Comedy . The multitude and diversity of the manuscripts which are still extant , testify to the value placed upon the poem during the close of the Middle Ages . But while the author yet wrote , the old alliterative verse was dying , and ...
... Comedy . The multitude and diversity of the manuscripts which are still extant , testify to the value placed upon the poem during the close of the Middle Ages . But while the author yet wrote , the old alliterative verse was dying , and ...
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... comedy in King Lear , but it is the product of the same native dramatic unconven- tionality . Noah's wife , Herod , and the Devil are the favourite humorous types , and it is in such figures , with their racy dialogue , that the ...
... comedy in King Lear , but it is the product of the same native dramatic unconven- tionality . Noah's wife , Herod , and the Devil are the favourite humorous types , and it is in such figures , with their racy dialogue , that the ...
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... comedy with Tragedy , and upholding the strictest observance of the unities , he gives us an extra- ordinary insight into the creative force and exuberance that made Elizabethan poetry . He expounds the accepted doctrine that all ...
... comedy with Tragedy , and upholding the strictest observance of the unities , he gives us an extra- ordinary insight into the creative force and exuberance that made Elizabethan poetry . He expounds the accepted doctrine that all ...
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... Comedy : Gammer Gurton's Nedle and Ralph Roister Doister . Early Tragedy : Gorboduc , etc. - Gascoigne - the University Wits - Marlowe The Origins . When Henry VIII . mounted the throne the Morality play still held the field of drama ...
... Comedy : Gammer Gurton's Nedle and Ralph Roister Doister . Early Tragedy : Gorboduc , etc. - Gascoigne - the University Wits - Marlowe The Origins . When Henry VIII . mounted the throne the Morality play still held the field of drama ...
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Sida 214 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Sida 163 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Sida 145 - And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Sida 162 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Sida 305 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Sida 534 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Sida 305 - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more. Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and...
Sida 214 - ... not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Sida 141 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Sida 278 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence: so, when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then, he asked her, also, what he had best do further with them.