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... dramatist 1496-1586 . Sir Richard Maitland , ( Scottish ) poet and historian . 1503-1542 . Sir Thomas Wyatt , poet . 1504-1575 . Matthew Parker , Archbishop , ecclesiastical writer . 1505-1572 . John Knox , ( Scottish ) ecclesiastical ...
... dramatist 1496-1586 . Sir Richard Maitland , ( Scottish ) poet and historian . 1503-1542 . Sir Thomas Wyatt , poet . 1504-1575 . Matthew Parker , Archbishop , ecclesiastical writer . 1505-1572 . John Knox , ( Scottish ) ecclesiastical ...
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... dramatist , also wrote satire , virulent and crudely expressed ; but laid it aside on entering the Church . The brothers Giles and Phineas Fletcher , both born - Giles the elder - some time between 1580 and 1590 , were both clergymen ...
... dramatist , also wrote satire , virulent and crudely expressed ; but laid it aside on entering the Church . The brothers Giles and Phineas Fletcher , both born - Giles the elder - some time between 1580 and 1590 , were both clergymen ...
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... dramatist he soon made his mark , and rose to an eminence inferior only to that of Shakespeare . His drama was , however , different in kind from that of Shake- speare . Shakespeare's object , or at least his achievement , was the ...
... dramatist he soon made his mark , and rose to an eminence inferior only to that of Shakespeare . His drama was , however , different in kind from that of Shake- speare . Shakespeare's object , or at least his achievement , was the ...
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... DRAMATISTS . George Chapman ( 1557-1634 ) , an Oxford scholar , and the friend- almost the rival- of Ben Jonson , with whom and others he sometimes collaborated , wrote , in whole or in part , All Fools , Eastward Ho ! The May Day , The ...
... DRAMATISTS . George Chapman ( 1557-1634 ) , an Oxford scholar , and the friend- almost the rival- of Ben Jonson , with whom and others he sometimes collaborated , wrote , in whole or in part , All Fools , Eastward Ho ! The May Day , The ...
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... of English drama . Their merits are many , the chief being their skill in dramatic construction . their ease in dialogue , the many fine poetical passages and lyrical gems which they introduce , and OTHER DRAMATISTS . 117.
... of English drama . Their merits are many , the chief being their skill in dramatic construction . their ease in dialogue , the many fine poetical passages and lyrical gems which they introduce , and OTHER DRAMATISTS . 117.
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Page 306 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ! While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 278 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 260 - The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 272 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends And youths and maidens gay!
Page 228 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 284 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 288 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 259 - I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 294 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou see'st — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island-valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 146 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'cr-informed the tenement of clay.