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... acted as his godfathers , and were supposed to become pledges for his being worthy of the honour to which he aspired , buckled on his gilded spurs , and belted him with his sword . He then received the accolade , a slight blow on the ...
... acted as his godfathers , and were supposed to become pledges for his being worthy of the honour to which he aspired , buckled on his gilded spurs , and belted him with his sword . He then received the accolade , a slight blow on the ...
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... acted up to the pitch of merit required by the statutes of Chivalry , this order might have proved for a length of time a substitute for imperfect policy , a remedy against feudal tyranny , -a resource for the weak when oppressed by the ...
... acted up to the pitch of merit required by the statutes of Chivalry , this order might have proved for a length of time a substitute for imperfect policy , a remedy against feudal tyranny , -a resource for the weak when oppressed by the ...
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... acted in earnest ; at least King James I. is accused of witnessing such practical jests ; " sometimes presenting David Droman and Archie Armstrong , the King's fool , on the back of other fools , to tilt at one another till they fell to ...
... acted in earnest ; at least King James I. is accused of witnessing such practical jests ; " sometimes presenting David Droman and Archie Armstrong , the King's fool , on the back of other fools , to tilt at one another till they fell to ...
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... acted exactly the part of story - tellers , as it is now sustain- ed by the Turkish dervises ; and whenever they wrote on the subject , they converted the life of Charlemagne into a tissue of legends and miracles . In the twelfth and ...
... acted exactly the part of story - tellers , as it is now sustain- ed by the Turkish dervises ; and whenever they wrote on the subject , they converted the life of Charlemagne into a tissue of legends and miracles . In the twelfth and ...
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... acted , the helpless Chorus , instead of interfering to prevent the atrocity to which the perpetrator had made them privy , could only , by the rules of the theatre , exhaust their sorrow and surprise in dithyrambics . This was well ...
... acted , the helpless Chorus , instead of interfering to prevent the atrocity to which the perpetrator had made them privy , could only , by the rules of the theatre , exhaust their sorrow and surprise in dithyrambics . This was well ...
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Página 343 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Página 343 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 350 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Página 279 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 307 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Página 361 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 282 - For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Página 276 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Página 307 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Página 54 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman...