The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature and Society, Band 2Remington & Company, 1885 |
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... wrote " The Dumb Lady ; or , The Farrier made Physician , " 1672 ; " Old Troop ; or , Monsieur Ragon , " 1672 ; and " Sawny the Scot ; or , The Taming of a Shrew , " 1677 . Of another of the Restoration actors the portrait will be OR ...
... wrote " The Dumb Lady ; or , The Farrier made Physician , " 1672 ; " Old Troop ; or , Monsieur Ragon , " 1672 ; and " Sawny the Scot ; or , The Taming of a Shrew , " 1677 . Of another of the Restoration actors the portrait will be OR ...
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... wrote for him his " Love for Love , " which was produced on the first night , and was an immense triumph . " Scarcely any comedy within the memory of the oldest man had been equally successful . The actors were so elated that they gave ...
... wrote for him his " Love for Love , " which was produced on the first night , and was an immense triumph . " Scarcely any comedy within the memory of the oldest man had been equally successful . The actors were so elated that they gave ...
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... wrote the part with this result in view , and also the lively epilogue , spoken just as the dead Valeria is about to be carried off by bearers . We transcribe it here ; and the reader can easily imagine with what dash and vivacity ...
... wrote the part with this result in view , and also the lively epilogue , spoken just as the dead Valeria is about to be carried off by bearers . We transcribe it here ; and the reader can easily imagine with what dash and vivacity ...
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... wrote with a stateli- ness that reflected the dignity of his character ; a poet of rare gifts and accomplishments , who , before all other English singers , had proved himself conscious of the nobleness and sacredness of the poet's ...
... wrote with a stateli- ness that reflected the dignity of his character ; a poet of rare gifts and accomplishments , who , before all other English singers , had proved himself conscious of the nobleness and sacredness of the poet's ...
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... wrote nothing in his later life , we may be thought to have erred in placing him among the poets of Charles the Second's reign ; but his lyrics breathe the true spirit of the Restoration . They were much more in harmony with the time ...
... wrote nothing in his later life , we may be thought to have erred in placing him among the poets of Charles the Second's reign ; but his lyrics breathe the true spirit of the Restoration . They were much more in harmony with the time ...
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Abraham Cowley actor actress admirable afterwards Anthony Wood Bayes beauty Betterton Bishop Bishop Burnet Burnet character Charles Charles II charming Church Church of England Cibber Colley Cibber Court Davenant death delight Denham died discourse Divine Dryden Duchess Duke of Buckingham Duke of York Duke's Earl England English father favour genius gentlemen graceful hath heart honour Hudibras I'gad Jeremy Taylor John King King's Knipp Lady Lady Castlemaine lived London Lord Milton mind mistress nature Nell Gwynn never night noble Oxford Parliament passion Penn Penn's Pepys person philosophy play players poem poet preached Prince prison published Quaker Queen reign Restoration Rochester royal satire says Sedley seems sermon Siege of Rhodes sing song soul spirit stage Taylor Theatre thee things thou thought tion took tragedy truth verdict verse wife William write wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 86 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Seite 260 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Seite 90 - By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Seite 250 - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Seite 111 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Seite 254 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven ? The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was? He replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee...
Seite 84 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Seite 338 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Seite 84 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that Error uses against her power.
Seite 414 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.