Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 2Harper, 1855 - Authors, English |
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... Earl of Nottingham , in his embassy to Spain , accompanied by a retinue of five hundred persons , and the Earl of Hertford , at Brussels , carried three hundred gentlemen . " The graziers have assured me of their credit , and some of ...
... Earl of Nottingham , in his embassy to Spain , accompanied by a retinue of five hundred persons , and the Earl of Hertford , at Brussels , carried three hundred gentlemen . " The graziers have assured me of their credit , and some of ...
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... Earl of Cumberland , and the Sidneys , bear a lustre in their characters which romance has not sur- passed ; and many there were as resolutely ambitious as Sir John Davies , who has left his name to the Straits still bearing it . Sir ...
... Earl of Cumberland , and the Sidneys , bear a lustre in their characters which romance has not sur- passed ; and many there were as resolutely ambitious as Sir John Davies , who has left his name to the Straits still bearing it . Sir ...
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... Earl of Essex : - - My ffary gode lord — her I sand you in tokyn hoff the neweyer a glasse hoff Setyl set in Sellfer gyld I pra you tak hit ( in ) wort An hy wer habel het shoulde be bater I woll hit war wort a m crone . " These lines ...
... Earl of Essex : - - My ffary gode lord — her I sand you in tokyn hoff the neweyer a glasse hoff Setyl set in Sellfer gyld I pra you tak hit ( in ) wort An hy wer habel het shoulde be bater I woll hit war wort a m crone . " These lines ...
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... earl's house- hold ; Salvador , the Italian chymist , a confidential counsellor , supposed to have departed from ... earl , found but a frail countess in the Lady Lettice , whose first husband , the Earl of Essex , had suddenly expired ...
... earl's house- hold ; Salvador , the Italian chymist , a confidential counsellor , supposed to have departed from ... earl , found but a frail countess in the Lady Lettice , whose first husband , the Earl of Essex , had suddenly expired ...
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... earl . Cer- tain it is that Leicester was suddenly seized with fever , and died on his way to Kenilworth , and that the master of the horse shortly after married the poisoning count- ess of the great poisoner . * Had the writer ...
... earl . Cer- tain it is that Leicester was suddenly seized with fever , and died on his way to Kenilworth , and that the master of the horse shortly after married the poisoning count- ess of the great poisoner . * Had the writer ...
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Page 195 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 36 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus...
Page 199 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 206 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Page 204 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 117 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes...
Page 162 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.
Page 133 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall: The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 211 - I do not know that Englishman alive, With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night; I thank my God for my humility.
Page 12 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.