Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays |
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... doth know Where is that happy land of faëry Which I so much do vaunt , but nowhere show , But vouch antiquities , which nobody can know . But let that man with better sense avise , That of the world least part to us is read : And daily ...
... doth know Where is that happy land of faëry Which I so much do vaunt , but nowhere show , But vouch antiquities , which nobody can know . But let that man with better sense avise , That of the world least part to us is read : And daily ...
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... doth fade away , Or as the moon clothed with cloudy night Doth show to him that walks in fear and sad affright . " The dramatic literature of this period only wants ex- ploring , to fill the inquiring mind with wonder and delight , and ...
... doth fade away , Or as the moon clothed with cloudy night Doth show to him that walks in fear and sad affright . " The dramatic literature of this period only wants ex- ploring , to fill the inquiring mind with wonder and delight , and ...
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... doth most delightfully teach , and so obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose * [ Edition of 1570 , pp . 143-4 . ] " The smiler with the knife under his cloke . " - Knight's Tale . [ Apologie for Poetrie , 1595 , repr ...
... doth most delightfully teach , and so obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose * [ Edition of 1570 , pp . 143-4 . ] " The smiler with the knife under his cloke . " - Knight's Tale . [ Apologie for Poetrie , 1595 , repr ...
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... doth cover it , Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but in the ground y - lain In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had near into the world been brought . But who had seen him , sobbing how he stood ...
... doth cover it , Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but in the ground y - lain In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had near into the world been brought . But who had seen him , sobbing how he stood ...
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... doth this water from my tatter'd robes ! Tell Isabel the queen , I look'd not thus , When for her sake I ran at tilt in France , And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont . " * There are some excellent passages scattered up and down ...
... doth this water from my tatter'd robes ! Tell Isabel the queen , I look'd not thus , When for her sake I ran at tilt in France , And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont . " * There are some excellent passages scattered up and down ...
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