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... French , and Spanish , she readeth here now at Windsore more Greeke every day than some Prebendarie of this Church doth read Latin in a whole weeke . And that which is most praise worthie of all , within the walls of her privie chamber ...
... French , and Spanish , she readeth here now at Windsore more Greeke every day than some Prebendarie of this Church doth read Latin in a whole weeke . And that which is most praise worthie of all , within the walls of her privie chamber ...
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... has laid down in his Discoveries , we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage , as any where- with the French can furnish us . BUTLER ( OUTLINE HISTORY , § 52 ) SIR HUDIBRAS 122 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... has laid down in his Discoveries , we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage , as any where- with the French can furnish us . BUTLER ( OUTLINE HISTORY , § 52 ) SIR HUDIBRAS 122 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... French romances , neatly gilt . There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves ; And all the trophies of his former loves : With tender billets - doux he lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire . Then ...
... French romances , neatly gilt . There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves ; And all the trophies of his former loves : With tender billets - doux he lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire . Then ...
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... French . The structure of dramatic poems was not then generally understood . Audiences applauded by in- stinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . To judge rightly of an author , we must transport ourselves to his time , and ...
... French . The structure of dramatic poems was not then generally understood . Audiences applauded by in- stinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . To judge rightly of an author , we must transport ourselves to his time , and ...
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... French and English school of tragedy ever be reconciled till the French become English or the English French . Both are right in what they admire , both are wrong in condemning the others for what they admire . We see the defects of ...
... French and English school of tragedy ever be reconciled till the French become English or the English French . Both are right in what they admire , both are wrong in condemning the others for what they admire . We see the defects of ...
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Page 265 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 274 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 69 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 225 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 69 - I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since...
Page 69 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 210 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 158 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...
Page 69 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 296 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!