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... Pedant ; the occasions , however , are far fewer in num- ber , —in fact , there is only one passage which can be thus construed . It is the ' extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer ' which Holo- fernes composed , beginning , ' The ...
... Pedant ; the occasions , however , are far fewer in num- ber , —in fact , there is only one passage which can be thus construed . It is the ' extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer ' which Holo- fernes composed , beginning , ' The ...
Page xii
... Pedants , but in the mouths of Courtiers ? While I have no atom of belief that SHAKE- SPEARE intended to ridicule Lyly , or to imitate him , there is yet one character , namely Berowne , who more nearly than any other approaches in his ...
... Pedants , but in the mouths of Courtiers ? While I have no atom of belief that SHAKE- SPEARE intended to ridicule Lyly , or to imitate him , there is yet one character , namely Berowne , who more nearly than any other approaches in his ...
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... pedant , ' says Malone , ' had , I make no doubt , an archtype ; and I think the ' character was formed out of two pedants [ insatiate critic , would not one suffice ? ] in Rabelais : Master Tubal Holofernes , and Master 6 ' Janotus de ...
... pedant , ' says Malone , ' had , I make no doubt , an archtype ; and I think the ' character was formed out of two pedants [ insatiate critic , would not one suffice ? ] in Rabelais : Master Tubal Holofernes , and Master 6 ' Janotus de ...
Page xvii
... pedant's " leash of languages . " ' It is fairly incredible that the staid Malone is serious when he asserts that the style of Janotus is exactly ' that of the leash of lan- guages ' of Holofernes . One or the other conclusion is ...
... pedant's " leash of languages . " ' It is fairly incredible that the staid Malone is serious when he asserts that the style of Janotus is exactly ' that of the leash of lan- guages ' of Holofernes . One or the other conclusion is ...
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... pedants , courtly braggarts , brilliant men in the heyday of life , and girls of France in all the sparkling bloom of beauty and of youth live a fragment of their gay or sombre lives before us ; we share in their chagrin , we hear their ...
... pedants , courtly braggarts , brilliant men in the heyday of life , and girls of France in all the sparkling bloom of beauty and of youth live a fragment of their gay or sombre lives before us ; we share in their chagrin , we hear their ...
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Page 62 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 28 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Page 184 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 184 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 204 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 326 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 21 - Then the Priest shall take the Child into his hands, and shall say to the godfathers and godmothers, Name this child.
Page 232 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.