The Cambridge History of English Literature: Cavalier and PuritanSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1911 |
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... never mention one another , but they can hardly have failed to meet , if not in the precincts of the court , then in the society of their tribal lord , Ben Jonson , whose intellectual sovereignty they alike acknow- ledge . In both , the ...
... never mention one another , but they can hardly have failed to meet , if not in the precincts of the court , then in the society of their tribal lord , Ben Jonson , whose intellectual sovereignty they alike acknow- ledge . In both , the ...
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... never shalt enjoy The just reward of a bold lover . But when , with moving accents , thou Shalt constant faith and service vow , Thy Celia shall receive those charms With open ears , and with unfolded arms2 . 1 Murdering Beauty . 2 ...
... never shalt enjoy The just reward of a bold lover . But when , with moving accents , thou Shalt constant faith and service vow , Thy Celia shall receive those charms With open ears , and with unfolded arms2 . 1 Murdering Beauty . 2 ...
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... never attempts the daring intricacies of rime in which Herrick delights , nor have any of his songs the rhythmic beauty attained , with such apparent ease , by Ben Jonson in his ' Slow , slow , fresh fount , keep time with my salt tears ...
... never attempts the daring intricacies of rime in which Herrick delights , nor have any of his songs the rhythmic beauty attained , with such apparent ease , by Ben Jonson in his ' Slow , slow , fresh fount , keep time with my salt tears ...
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... never failed . ' According to the same witness , ' all Mr Herbert's Court hopes ' died with the death in rapid succession of his two most influential friends , and of the king himself in 1625 . It is difficult to believe that his ...
... never failed . ' According to the same witness , ' all Mr Herbert's Court hopes ' died with the death in rapid succession of his two most influential friends , and of the king himself in 1625 . It is difficult to believe that his ...
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... never goes far afield . He makes no experiments with lines of three - syllabled feet , and even the trochaic measure is seldom used instead of iambic . But , in minor arrangements , as to the length of the lines , the incidence of the ...
... never goes far afield . He makes no experiments with lines of three - syllabled feet , and even the trochaic measure is seldom used instead of iambic . But , in minor arrangements , as to the length of the lines , the incidence of the ...
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Page 419 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 294 - ... no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Page 179 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 174 - Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey and the way to glory, In more than twenty things, which I set down; This done, I twenty more had in my crown, And they again began to multiply, Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
Page 413 - BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN, Compos'd at several times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. HENRY LAWES, Gentleman of the Kings Chappel, and one of His Majesties Private Musick.
Page 262 - To conclude of him ; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us.
Page 40 - The first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and verse gained many pious Converts, (of whom I am the least) and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time.
Page 14 - We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 111 - Take up a weeping on the mountains wild, The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring Would soon unbosom all their echoes mild, And I (for grief is easily beguiled) Might think the infection of my sorrows loud Had got a race of mourners on some pregnant cloud.
Page 341 - ... as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages, you must confess that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue, for a little Greek and Latin.