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Page xiii
... must be confessed that some of the meat is too high and some of the sauces are too rank for any but a very strong digestion . But those who turn away from the table in sheer disgust at the coarseness of the fare will lose the enjoyment ...
... must be confessed that some of the meat is too high and some of the sauces are too rank for any but a very strong digestion . But those who turn away from the table in sheer disgust at the coarseness of the fare will lose the enjoyment ...
Page xx
... must acknowledge the quality of Shakespeare's realism- to be superior , though in the energy and completeness of the - picture , Jonson's comedy is not surpassed . Jonson more than any other Elizabethan dramatist iden- tified himself ...
... must acknowledge the quality of Shakespeare's realism- to be superior , though in the energy and completeness of the - picture , Jonson's comedy is not surpassed . Jonson more than any other Elizabethan dramatist iden- tified himself ...
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... must.1 In their conduct of life , Jonson's Puritans are anything but spiritually minded . Ananias and Tribulation Whole- some seek after the riches that perish , and by the most foolish of means . Busy and Dame Purecraft , according to ...
... must.1 In their conduct of life , Jonson's Puritans are anything but spiritually minded . Ananias and Tribulation Whole- some seek after the riches that perish , and by the most foolish of means . Busy and Dame Purecraft , according to ...
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... must have found it difficult not to become self - conscious — perhaps vain of their freedom from vanity . That their language was stilted and bombastic , contempo- rary literature gives abundant proof . Especially writings intended to ...
... must have found it difficult not to become self - conscious — perhaps vain of their freedom from vanity . That their language was stilted and bombastic , contempo- rary literature gives abundant proof . Especially writings intended to ...
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... must repeat , the whole literature which was practically accessible to ordinary Englishmen ; and when we recall the number of common phrases which we owe to great authors , the bits of Shakespeare , or Milton , or Dickens , or Thackeray ...
... must repeat , the whole literature which was practically accessible to ordinary Englishmen ; and when we recall the number of common phrases which we owe to great authors , the bits of Shakespeare , or Milton , or Dickens , or Thackeray ...
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Page 217 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 185 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 151 - To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Page 144 - We had determin'd that thou should'st have come In a Spanish suit, and have carried her so ; and he, A brokerly slave ! goes, puts it on himself. Hast brought the damask?
Page 146 - Maygame, or Pageant jestingly or prophanely speake or use the holy Name of God or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghoste or of the Trinitie...
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Page 148 - ts own hall ; when these (in worthy scorn Of those that put out monies on return From Venice, Paris, or some inland passage Of six times to and fro, without embassage, Or him that backward went to Berwick, or which Did dance the famous Morris unto Norwich) At Bread Street's Mermaid, having dined, and merry, Proposed to go to Holborn in a wherry: A harder task than either his to Bristo', Or his to Antwerp.
Page 238 - XXII. King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into Modern English. HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D. $0.75.
Page 154 - ... and sometime painted with variable colours, with two or three hundred men, women and children following it with great devotion. And thus being reared up with...
Page 163 - The custom of eating a gammon of bacon at Easter (which is still kept up in many parts of England) was founded on this, viz. to shew their abhorrence of Judaism at that solemn commemoration of our Lord's resurrection. " The use of your humble servant came first into England on the marriage of Queen Mary, daughter of Hen.