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... Greene's well known virulent attack on Shakespeare in 1592 , properly belongs to Part III .; or to the whole group . Its con- sideration must be deferred for the present with the remark that it betrays Greene's extreme irritation ...
... Greene's well known virulent attack on Shakespeare in 1592 , properly belongs to Part III .; or to the whole group . Its con- sideration must be deferred for the present with the remark that it betrays Greene's extreme irritation ...
Page xi
... Greene's methods of expres- sion in so many places , the general style is not that of Greene , it is much toned down and tamer . Still less does the poetry recall Marlowe ; it is devoid of his special grandeur , or inflation , or rant ...
... Greene's methods of expres- sion in so many places , the general style is not that of Greene , it is much toned down and tamer . Still less does the poetry recall Marlowe ; it is devoid of his special grandeur , or inflation , or rant ...
Page xii
... Greene seems to have had less admiration for the greatest of all poets since the days of Chaucer . Perhaps " Palin worthie of great praise " who envied Spenser's “ rustick quill " ( Colin Clout's Come Home Again , 392 ) was Greene ...
... Greene seems to have had less admiration for the greatest of all poets since the days of Chaucer . Perhaps " Palin worthie of great praise " who envied Spenser's “ rustick quill " ( Colin Clout's Come Home Again , 392 ) was Greene ...
Page xiii
... Greene and Peele , and equally easily the idea presents itself that in smoothing away much of Greene's turgidity and iteration as the work progressed the toes of the older dramatist were often trodden upon , that the feeling of rancour ...
... Greene and Peele , and equally easily the idea presents itself that in smoothing away much of Greene's turgidity and iteration as the work progressed the toes of the older dramatist were often trodden upon , that the feeling of rancour ...
Page xiv
... Greene took from Ariosto . Mr. Greg disagrees with Collins about the authorship of Selimus , which play the former rightly continues to ascribe ( mainly ) to Greene - his arguments here are sound and useful -Greene , under the influence ...
... Greene took from Ariosto . Mr. Greg disagrees with Collins about the authorship of Selimus , which play the former rightly continues to ascribe ( mainly ) to Greene - his arguments here are sound and useful -Greene , under the influence ...
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Page 65 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page xxv - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 4 - HUNG be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 24 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.