Milton's Arcades and ComusAt the University Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xxix
... comedy was rendered in the hall of Trinity , or the Templar who had borne his part in the Christmas Revels of one of the Inns of Court , would masque- rade as Apollo , or Sylvanus , or Thyrsis . Everybody was faultless as the graceful ...
... comedy was rendered in the hall of Trinity , or the Templar who had borne his part in the Christmas Revels of one of the Inns of Court , would masque- rade as Apollo , or Sylvanus , or Thyrsis . Everybody was faultless as the graceful ...
Page xli
... comedy , not tragedy , nor a compromise between them such as Shakespeare first brought to perfection ; but a Masque , as the title - page proclaimed . Hence strict and exacting canons of dramatic art which should be applied if the work ...
... comedy , not tragedy , nor a compromise between them such as Shakespeare first brought to perfection ; but a Masque , as the title - page proclaimed . Hence strict and exacting canons of dramatic art which should be applied if the work ...
Page xlix
... Comedy of Errors ; 24 from Henry VIII . In the extract from the latter there are 8 lines with he supernumerary syllable ; in the extract from the early play not one . verse measure took this turn . The extra syllable exactly COMUS . xlix.
... Comedy of Errors ; 24 from Henry VIII . In the extract from the latter there are 8 lines with he supernumerary syllable ; in the extract from the early play not one . verse measure took this turn . The extra syllable exactly COMUS . xlix.
Page liv
... comedy played at Urbino in 1513. Like the Plaue comedies on the other occasion it was furnished with Masque - interludes , one after each act . The second of these was a " Masque of Venus , drawn along in her car by a couple of doves ...
... comedy played at Urbino in 1513. Like the Plaue comedies on the other occasion it was furnished with Masque - interludes , one after each act . The second of these was a " Masque of Venus , drawn along in her car by a couple of doves ...
Page lxvi
... comedy . Anti - masques were not always intro- duced : when they were , recourse was had to the skilled services of actors from the public theatres . 1 Cf. the preface to Jonson's Masque of Hymen : " the most royal princes and greatest ...
... comedy . Anti - masques were not always intro- duced : when they were , recourse was had to the skilled services of actors from the public theatres . 1 Cf. the preface to Jonson's Masque of Hymen : " the most royal princes and greatest ...
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Page 98 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 112 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 134 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 5 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page viii - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 13 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight...
Page 77 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page lxx - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page lxxiii - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Page 165 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...