Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... never comes , even into 20 Heaven and Hell : and therefore he cannot escape such as approve the wisdom of the best Dramaticks , who , in repre- sentation of examples , beleeve they prevail most on our man- ners , when they lay the Scene ...
... never comes , even into 20 Heaven and Hell : and therefore he cannot escape such as approve the wisdom of the best Dramaticks , who , in repre- sentation of examples , beleeve they prevail most on our man- ners , when they lay the Scene ...
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... never ceases amongst the Learned ; and he seems most vnfortunate , because his errors , which are deriv'd from the Ancients , when examin'd , grow in a great degree excusable in them , and by being his , admit no pardon . Such as are ...
... never ceases amongst the Learned ; and he seems most vnfortunate , because his errors , which are deriv'd from the Ancients , when examin'd , grow in a great degree excusable in them , and by being his , admit no pardon . Such as are ...
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... never any Monarch so cruel but he had living Subjects , nor so avaritious but that his Subjects were richer then himself , nor ever any disease in Govern- ment so extremely infectious as to make universal Anarchy , 25 or any error in ...
... never any Monarch so cruel but he had living Subjects , nor so avaritious but that his Subjects were richer then himself , nor ever any disease in Govern- ment so extremely infectious as to make universal Anarchy , 25 or any error in ...
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... never enjoyn'd a Jewish separation , but drew all Nations together , yet not as their companions of the same species , but as slaves to a Yoke : Their sanctity was Honor , and their Honor onely an impudent 10 courage or dexterity in ...
... never enjoyn'd a Jewish separation , but drew all Nations together , yet not as their companions of the same species , but as slaves to a Yoke : Their sanctity was Honor , and their Honor onely an impudent 10 courage or dexterity in ...
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... never willing either to buy their Peace or to pay for Warr ? Nor are Camps the Schools of wicked Destroyers , more 15 then the Inns of Court , being the Nursery of Judges , are the Schools of Murderers ; for as Judges are avengers of ...
... never willing either to buy their Peace or to pay for Warr ? Nor are Camps the Schools of wicked Destroyers , more 15 then the Inns of Court , being the Nursery of Judges , are the Schools of Murderers ; for as Judges are avengers of ...
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Page 221 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 228 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 118 - They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.
Page 334 - I'll give no more, but I'll undo The world by dying, because love dies too. Then all your beauties will be no more worth Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth, And all your graces no more use shall have Than a sun-dial in a grave.
Page 222 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak— such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 80 - Age, and so much to my own prejudice in regard of those more profitable matches which I might have made among the richer Sciences. As for the Portion which this brings of Fame, it is an Estate (if it be any...
Page 95 - Actor still, never falling in his Part when he had done speaking, but with his looks and gesture maintaining it still unto the heighth...
Page 242 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 240 - Ay, there's the point: — As, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends: Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Page 90 - Can all the Transformations of the Gods give such copious hints to flourish and expatiate on, as the true Miracles of Christ, or of his Prophets, and Apostles?