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... played it , and , returning it to him by the handle , said , ' Sir John , I return you your banner , God give you strength and honour to preserve it . ' " Upon this , Sir John left the Prince , went back to his men , with the banner in ...
... played it , and , returning it to him by the handle , said , ' Sir John , I return you your banner , God give you strength and honour to preserve it . ' " Upon this , Sir John left the Prince , went back to his men , with the banner in ...
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... play , and gentleness , proper to Chivalry . Where different nations are at strife together , their war may be carried on with a certain degree of moderation . " During the foreign wars between France and Spain , espe cially in Piedmont ...
... play , and gentleness , proper to Chivalry . Where different nations are at strife together , their war may be carried on with a certain degree of moderation . " During the foreign wars between France and Spain , espe cially in Piedmont ...
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... a poet or composer of Romances , as for a player to be a dramatic author , or a musician a Jamieson's Popular Ballads , vol . ii . , p . 27 . composer of music . Whatever individual among a class , ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 159.
... a poet or composer of Romances , as for a player to be a dramatic author , or a musician a Jamieson's Popular Ballads , vol . ii . , p . 27 . composer of music . Whatever individual among a class , ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 159.
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... player or the musician , becomes the companion and soother only of idle and convivial hours ; his presence would be unbecoming on occasions of gravity and importance ; and his art is accounted at best an amusing but useless luxury ...
... player or the musician , becomes the companion and soother only of idle and convivial hours ; his presence would be unbecoming on occasions of gravity and importance ; and his art is accounted at best an amusing but useless luxury ...
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... play fellowes and maintainers to a great sort of persons ; whereof some , after they had learned to amize in speech , their teeth watered , so desirous were they even to taste of some small morsels of the delicacies therein most livelie ...
... play fellowes and maintainers to a great sort of persons ; whereof some , after they had learned to amize in speech , their teeth watered , so desirous were they even to taste of some small morsels of the delicacies therein most livelie ...
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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...