Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 378
... beauty , surpassing in this respect , in Professor Ward's judgment , all the Elizabethans but Shake- speare . Eastward Hoe was written in conjunction with Jonson and Marston , but is mainly Chapman's , according to Ward , who pronounces ...
... beauty , surpassing in this respect , in Professor Ward's judgment , all the Elizabethans but Shake- speare . Eastward Hoe was written in conjunction with Jonson and Marston , but is mainly Chapman's , according to Ward , who pronounces ...
Page 384
... beauty which a picture cannot express ; no , nor the first sight of the life . There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion . A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ...
... beauty which a picture cannot express ; no , nor the first sight of the life . There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion . A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ...
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... beauty is like fire , That breaks out clearer still and higher . Though your beauty be confined , And soft Love a prisoner bound , Yet the beauty of your mind Neither check nor chain hath found . Look out nobly , then , and dare Even ...
... beauty is like fire , That breaks out clearer still and higher . Though your beauty be confined , And soft Love a prisoner bound , Yet the beauty of your mind Neither check nor chain hath found . Look out nobly , then , and dare Even ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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