English Literature During the Lifetime of ShakespeareH. Holt, 1927 - 492 pages |
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actors allegory appeared Bacon beauty Ben Jonson Bible Cæsar called Chapman character chronicle play church classical comedy conceit contemporary court Daniel death Dekker Donne drama dramatist Drayton Earl earlier eclogues edition Elizabethan England English Euphues Euphuistic Faery Queen Fletcher Greene's hand hath Henry Hero and Leander Heywood honor humor imitation Italian John Jonson Julius Cæsar King James later Latin learned less literary literature London Lyly Lyly's lyric Marlowe Marlowe's Marston masque matter Michael Drayton Mirror for Magistrates moral Nash nature original pamphlets passion pastoral personages poem poet poetical poetry popular printed prose published Puritan reign Richard Richard III romantic satire scene Shake Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's songs sonnets Spanish Spanish Tragedy speare Spenser spirit stage stanza story style sweet Tamburlaine theaters thee things Thomas Thomas Kyd thou thought tion tragedy translation verse words writing written
Popular passages
Page 133 - Death, be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.
Page 367 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 353 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 170 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb
Page 205 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 136 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 31 - Having this day, my horse, my hand, my lance, Guided so well that I obtained the prize, Both by the judgment of the English eyes, And of some sent from that sweet enemy, — France...
Page 5 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 279 - Therefore when she was sent unto by divers letters, both from Antonius himself, and also from his friends, she made so light of it and mocked Antonius so much, that she disdained to set forward otherwise, but to take her barge in the river of Cydnus...
Page 55 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.