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... heart was unac- companied by largeness of brain . She was so sur- rounded by foreign enemies and domestic factions , that the sagacity which makes the fewest mistakes was her only security against dethronement or assassination . Her ...
... heart was unac- companied by largeness of brain . She was so sur- rounded by foreign enemies and domestic factions , that the sagacity which makes the fewest mistakes was her only security against dethronement or assassination . Her ...
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... heart , which give to these writers their largeness , dignity , sweetness , and power , are to be referred in a great degree to the imagi- native element of their natures . They lived , indeed , in an imaginative age , an age in which ...
... heart , which give to these writers their largeness , dignity , sweetness , and power , are to be referred in a great degree to the imagi- native element of their natures . They lived , indeed , in an imaginative age , an age in which ...
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... heart of courtesy , " is Sir Philip Sidney's definition of the gentleman ; and this was the standard to which many aspired , if few reached it . This chivalry was a poetic reflection of the feudal age , which was departing in its ...
... heart of courtesy , " is Sir Philip Sidney's definition of the gentleman ; and this was the standard to which many aspired , if few reached it . This chivalry was a poetic reflection of the feudal age , which was departing in its ...
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... a few of the Elizabethan men of action shows that literature was but one out of many expressions of the roused energies of the national heart and brain , and that those who performed actions which ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 11.
... a few of the Elizabethan men of action shows that literature was but one out of many expressions of the roused energies of the national heart and brain , and that those who performed actions which ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE . 11.
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... ple , and attracted to it all those who aimed to gain a livelihood out of the products of their hearts and imagi- nations . Its literature was the popular literature of 66 the age . It was newspaper , magazine , 12 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE.
... ple , and attracted to it all those who aimed to gain a livelihood out of the products of their hearts and imagi- nations . Its literature was the popular literature of 66 the age . It was newspaper , magazine , 12 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE.
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Page 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Page 143 - I'd not be tedious to you. Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me. Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces ; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. Come, violent death, Serve for Mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet. [They strangle her, kneeling.
Page 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 346 - To whom the good man replied, " My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me ; but labor — as indeed I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 172 - Nothing can cover his high fame, but Heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him.
Page 305 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.