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 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page 48
... Elizabethan scribe : Noah . Wif , com in : why standes thou there ? Thou art ever forward , I dar well swere ; Com in , on Goddes halfe ! time it were , for God's sake For fere lest that we drowne . Noah's Wife . Yea , sir , sette up ...
... Elizabethan scribe : Noah . Wif , com in : why standes thou there ? Thou art ever forward , I dar well swere ; Com in , on Goddes halfe ! time it were , for God's sake For fere lest that we drowne . Noah's Wife . Yea , sir , sette up ...
Page 156
... Elizabethan border , for it was played at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , and this ( despite the earlier licensing of a play called Dyccon the Bedlam , a familiar character who appears in Gammer Gurton's Needle ) was the ...
... Elizabethan border , for it was played at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , and this ( despite the earlier licensing of a play called Dyccon the Bedlam , a familiar character who appears in Gammer Gurton's Needle ) was the ...
Page 157
... Elizabethan drama . Here , meanwhile , is the beginning of Act v . in this first English tragedy : Clotyn . Did ever age bring forth such tirants harts ? The brother hath bereft the brothers life , The mother she hath died her cruell ...
... Elizabethan drama . Here , meanwhile , is the beginning of Act v . in this first English tragedy : Clotyn . Did ever age bring forth such tirants harts ? The brother hath bereft the brothers life , The mother she hath died her cruell ...
Page 159
... Elizabethan poets were brought up . The first edition con- tained forty poems by Wyatt , ninety - six by Surrey , forty by Grimald , and ninety - five of Uncertain Auctours ; ' in the second edition thirty of Grimald's were omitted ...
... Elizabethan poets were brought up . The first edition con- tained forty poems by Wyatt , ninety - six by Surrey , forty by Grimald , and ninety - five of Uncertain Auctours ; ' in the second edition thirty of Grimald's were omitted ...
Page 160
... Elizabethan verse . Besides his sonnets and lyrics , Wyatt versified the Penitential Psalms , not very happily , and also wrote some satires , which may be illustrated by a few lines from that entitled ' Of the Courtiers Life , written ...
... Elizabethan verse . Besides his sonnets and lyrics , Wyatt versified the Penitential Psalms , not very happily , and also wrote some satires , which may be illustrated by a few lines from that entitled ' Of the Courtiers Life , written ...
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