Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3E. Moxon, 1834 - English literature |
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... THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS 65 A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE 70 THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN 72 SOLITUDE 75 LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS 82 ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND 89 RICHARDSON 94 PAGE INFLUENCE OF NAMES 98 THE JEWS OF YORK THE.
... THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS 65 A CONTRIVANCE IN DRAMATIC DIALOGUE 70 THE COMEDY OF A MADMAN 72 SOLITUDE 75 LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS 82 ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND 89 RICHARDSON 94 PAGE INFLUENCE OF NAMES 98 THE JEWS OF YORK THE.
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... LITERARY COMPOSITION POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES EXPLANATION OF THE FAC - SIMILE 126 · 128 · 140 • 164 LITERARY FASHIONS THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES • 168 173 194 MASSINGER , MILTON , AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE ...
... LITERARY COMPOSITION POETICAL IMITATIONS AND SIMILARITIES EXPLANATION OF THE FAC - SIMILE 126 · 128 · 140 • 164 LITERARY FASHIONS THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES • 168 173 194 MASSINGER , MILTON , AND THE ITALIAN THEATRE ...
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... literary , in discovering the author of a libel . It took place in the reign of Henry VIII . A great jealousy subsisted between the Londoners and those Foreigners who traded here . The Foreigners probably ( observes Mr. Lodge , in his ...
... literary , in discovering the author of a libel . It took place in the reign of Henry VIII . A great jealousy subsisted between the Londoners and those Foreigners who traded here . The Foreigners probably ( observes Mr. Lodge , in his ...
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... literary curiosity can we deny a niche to that " obliquity of distorted wit , " of Barton Holyday , who has composed a strange comedie , in five acts , performed at Christ Church , Oxford , 1630 , not for the entertain- ment , as an ...
... literary curiosity can we deny a niche to that " obliquity of distorted wit , " of Barton Holyday , who has composed a strange comedie , in five acts , performed at Christ Church , Oxford , 1630 , not for the entertain- ment , as an ...
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... literary curiosity . In this singular comedy all Bedlam seems to be let loose on the stage , and every character has a high claim to an apartment in it . It is indeed suspected that the cardinal had a hand in this anomalous drama , and ...
... literary curiosity . In this singular comedy all Bedlam seems to be let loose on the stage , and every character has a high claim to an apartment in it . It is indeed suspected that the cardinal had a hand in this anomalous drama , and ...
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Page 148 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 164 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 144 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Page 262 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 155 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 154 - Though poverty's cold wind, and crushing rain, Beat keen, and heavy on thy tender years.' Oh, let me now, into a richer soil, Transplant thee safe ! where vernal suns and showers, Diffuse their warmest, largest influence : And of my garden be the pride, and joy...
Page 150 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 159 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Page 147 - There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring.
Page 164 - With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey ; His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies ; She, trembling, creeps upon the ground away, And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.