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... SHAKESPEARE , HIS CONTEMPORARIES , AND IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS . 1. English Writers in the Early Years of the Century . - 2 . William Shakespeare . - 3 . Ben Jonson . -4 . Beaumont and Fletcher . -5 . George Chapman ; Thomas Heywood . - 6 ...
... SHAKESPEARE , HIS CONTEMPORARIES , AND IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS . 1. English Writers in the Early Years of the Century . - 2 . William Shakespeare . - 3 . Ben Jonson . -4 . Beaumont and Fletcher . -5 . George Chapman ; Thomas Heywood . - 6 ...
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... Shakespeare was to come . - 2. The first of these great tribes who came into the British Isles were the Celts ; and of these there were two distinct families , the Gaelic Celts and the Cymric Celts . The former , migrating by sea from ...
... Shakespeare was to come . - 2. The first of these great tribes who came into the British Isles were the Celts ; and of these there were two distinct families , the Gaelic Celts and the Cymric Celts . The former , migrating by sea from ...
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... Shakespeare , and Milton , and Dryden , and Pope , and Burns , and Wordsworth , and Keats , and Shelley , and Elizabeth Browning , and Tennyson . It may well seem to us the most glorious army that ever marched ; and it interests us to ...
... Shakespeare , and Milton , and Dryden , and Pope , and Burns , and Wordsworth , and Keats , and Shelley , and Elizabeth Browning , and Tennyson . It may well seem to us the most glorious army that ever marched ; and it interests us to ...
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... Shakespeare . Chaucer may have been at work upon his poem , which is in five books and 8,251 lines , in the last years of the reign of Edward III . , who died in 1377. Ripeness of age is indicated not only by the breadth and depth of ...
... Shakespeare . Chaucer may have been at work upon his poem , which is in five books and 8,251 lines , in the last years of the reign of Edward III . , who died in 1377. Ripeness of age is indicated not only by the breadth and depth of ...
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... Shakespeare . In studying the English literature of the fifteenth century , it will be best for us , first , to group together the principal facts in the outward and inward life of that century , that helped or hin- dered the progress ...
... Shakespeare . In studying the English literature of the fifteenth century , it will be best for us , first , to group together the principal facts in the outward and inward life of that century , that helped or hin- dered the progress ...
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Page 312 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 465 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
Page 317 - ... bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give; And I with thee will choose to live.
Page 348 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 131 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 425 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support...
Page 278 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 435 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 386 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close.
Page 123 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.