The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred and Twenty-five AuthorsRobert Maynard Leonard H. Frowde, 1912 - 743 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... Shakespeare an upstart crow Of studies Of adversity Of gardens The durable monuments of learning 289 BACON , FRANCIS , VISCOUNT ST . ALBANS ( 1561-1626 ) 23 31 32 33 34 Salomon's House 35 PAGE DANIEL , SAMUEL ( 1562–1619 ) The danger of ...
... Shakespeare an upstart crow Of studies Of adversity Of gardens The durable monuments of learning 289 BACON , FRANCIS , VISCOUNT ST . ALBANS ( 1561-1626 ) 23 31 32 33 34 Salomon's House 35 PAGE DANIEL , SAMUEL ( 1562–1619 ) The danger of ...
Pagina xii
... SHAKESPEARE , WILLIAM ( 1564-1616 ) A royal wooing 551 Hamlet's advice to the players 553 The quintessence of dust 554 Much virtue in if 555 JAMES I , KING ( 1566–1625 ) The uncivil trick of smoking 351 NASH , THOMAS ( 1567-1601 ) ...
... SHAKESPEARE , WILLIAM ( 1564-1616 ) A royal wooing 551 Hamlet's advice to the players 553 The quintessence of dust 554 Much virtue in if 555 JAMES I , KING ( 1566–1625 ) The uncivil trick of smoking 351 NASH , THOMAS ( 1567-1601 ) ...
Pagina 9
... Shakespeare uttered such heart - stirring sentiments at the absolute court of Queen Elizabeth ; and thence it was , in later times , that the drama had not even arisen in America , in an age when Schiller and Goethe had rendered it ...
... Shakespeare uttered such heart - stirring sentiments at the absolute court of Queen Elizabeth ; and thence it was , in later times , that the drama had not even arisen in America , in an age when Schiller and Goethe had rendered it ...
Pagina 72
... Shakespeare , an exception to all rules , and Dante , familiar as a contem- porary with the works of Roman art , composed in his mother tongue , having taken , not so much for his guide as for his master ' , Virgil , himself almost a ...
... Shakespeare , an exception to all rules , and Dante , familiar as a contem- porary with the works of Roman art , composed in his mother tongue , having taken , not so much for his guide as for his master ' , Virgil , himself almost a ...
Pagina 115
... Shakespeare , and Marlowe's fragment : Ovid ? Daniel Lucan ? Spenser : Martial ? Sir John Davis and others . Will you have all in all for prose and verse ? take the miracle of our age , Sir Philip Sidney . R. CAREW . - The Excellency of ...
... Shakespeare , and Marlowe's fragment : Ovid ? Daniel Lucan ? Spenser : Martial ? Sir John Davis and others . Will you have all in all for prose and verse ? take the miracle of our age , Sir Philip Sidney . R. CAREW . - The Excellency of ...
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Pagina 447 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Pagina 31 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Pagina 33 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Pagina 551 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pagina 681 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Pagina 446 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Pagina 222 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Pagina 552 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pagina 683 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away....
Pagina 551 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.