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... knowledge of religion . Its products were called Miracle Plays . They were written , and often acted , by ecclesiastics ; they represented the per- sons and events of the Scriptures , of the apocryphal Gospels , and of the legends of ...
... knowledge of religion . Its products were called Miracle Plays . They were written , and often acted , by ecclesiastics ; they represented the per- sons and events of the Scriptures , of the apocryphal Gospels , and of the legends of ...
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... account for them by any knowledge you have of the manners and customs of the England of Eliza- beth : - " The morning steals upon the night , Melting the darkness . " " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! SHAKESPEARE . 39.
... account for them by any knowledge you have of the manners and customs of the England of Eliza- beth : - " The morning steals upon the night , Melting the darkness . " " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! SHAKESPEARE . 39.
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... knowledge which formed the materials of each individual embodiment , and the inexhaustible interest and fulness of meaning and appli- cation revealed in the analytic scrutiny of each . Com- pare , for example , Shakespeare's Timon of ...
... knowledge which formed the materials of each individual embodiment , and the inexhaustible interest and fulness of meaning and appli- cation revealed in the analytic scrutiny of each . Com- pare , for example , Shakespeare's Timon of ...
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... knowledge of him ; but he has never been included by criticism as other poets have been included . The greatest and most interpretative minds which have made him their study , though they may have commenced with wielding the rod , soon ...
... knowledge of him ; but he has never been included by criticism as other poets have been included . The greatest and most interpretative minds which have made him their study , though they may have commenced with wielding the rod , soon ...
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... heat , and urging them to ef- forts almost preternatural , it is this which impels the daring thought beyond the limits of positive knowledge , - and prompts the starts of ecstasy in whose unexpected radiance SHAKESPEARE . 63.
... heat , and urging them to ef- forts almost preternatural , it is this which impels the daring thought beyond the limits of positive knowledge , - and prompts the starts of ecstasy in whose unexpected radiance SHAKESPEARE . 63.
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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 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
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 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 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.