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Pàgina xii
... Elizabeth , 243 . Mennis , Sir John , 290 . Merddin , 6 . Michael , the Cornish poet , 34 . Middleton , Thomas , 199 . Minot , Laurence , 66 . Montgomery , Alexander , 143 . Moriat , 1 . Munday , Anthony , 159 . xii ALPHABETICAL CONTENTS .
... Elizabeth , 243 . Mennis , Sir John , 290 . Merddin , 6 . Michael , the Cornish poet , 34 . Middleton , Thomas , 199 . Minot , Laurence , 66 . Montgomery , Alexander , 143 . Moriat , 1 . Munday , Anthony , 159 . xii ALPHABETICAL CONTENTS .
Pàgina 94
... Elizabeth , daughter of Robert Lord Boyd , a nobleman who for some time held the office of high chamberlain . He was born in the year 1475. According to the practice of that age , especially in Scotland , his education probably ...
... Elizabeth , daughter of Robert Lord Boyd , a nobleman who for some time held the office of high chamberlain . He was born in the year 1475. According to the practice of that age , especially in Scotland , his education probably ...
Pàgina 111
... Elizabeth he returned from exile , but did not choose to go again to Ireland , being satisfied with a prebend of Canterbury , in which city he died , Nov. 1563 , being then in the sixty - eighth year of his age , and was buried in the ...
... Elizabeth he returned from exile , but did not choose to go again to Ireland , being satisfied with a prebend of Canterbury , in which city he died , Nov. 1563 , being then in the sixty - eighth year of his age , and was buried in the ...
Pàgina 119
... Elizabeth , he was again called into active life , and successively was ambassador to the Emperor Ferdinand , and to Philip king of Spain , from which last appointment , in consequence of his irksome situation , he obtained a recal in ...
... Elizabeth , he was again called into active life , and successively was ambassador to the Emperor Ferdinand , and to Philip king of Spain , from which last appointment , in consequence of his irksome situation , he obtained a recal in ...
Pàgina 126
... Elizabeth . Hence we may con- jecture he did not remain long at the University . Having first been a member of Lincoln's Inn , he was , in the year 1561 , constituted a gentleman of the Royal Chapel by Queen Elizabeth , and master of ...
... Elizabeth . Hence we may con- jecture he did not remain long at the University . Having first been a member of Lincoln's Inn , he was , in the year 1561 , constituted a gentleman of the Royal Chapel by Queen Elizabeth , and master of ...
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Pàgina 212 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pàgina 192 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Pàgina 185 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Pàgina 187 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Pàgina 311 - Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding.
Pàgina 194 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Pàgina 186 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pàgina 60 - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...
Pàgina 288 - His chiefest recreation was Musick, in which heavenly Art he was a most excellent Master, and did himself compose many divine Hymns and Anthems, which he set and sung to his Lute or Viol...
Pàgina 322 - Orpheus' lyre : If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks, in even ranks they stand, Like some well-marshal'd and obsequious band.