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Page xxv
... Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Puttenham in The Arte of English Poesie ; and Spenser's earliest work call for notice ... Ovid . In The Return from Par- nassus , " Will Kemp " says : " Few of the University pen plays well they smell too much of ...
... Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Puttenham in The Arte of English Poesie ; and Spenser's earliest work call for notice ... Ovid . In The Return from Par- nassus , " Will Kemp " says : " Few of the University pen plays well they smell too much of ...
Page xxxvi
... Ovid's Metamorphoses ( 1565-1567 ) made free use of these expressions . He gives helpless , heedless , headless , wiveless , knotless , hurt- less , luckless , pleasureless , tongueless , lightless , careless . Most of these are new ...
... Ovid's Metamorphoses ( 1565-1567 ) made free use of these expressions . He gives helpless , heedless , headless , wiveless , knotless , hurt- less , luckless , pleasureless , tongueless , lightless , careless . Most of these are new ...
Page xxxix
... Ovid for the first time . Sidney has a number of them in Arcadia . Spenser seems to use those older ones that came to his hand , oftenest . Peele coins several . So does Kyd . Perhaps about four apiece in their early and undoubted work ...
... Ovid for the first time . Sidney has a number of them in Arcadia . Spenser seems to use those older ones that came to his hand , oftenest . Peele coins several . So does Kyd . Perhaps about four apiece in their early and undoubted work ...
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... Ovid , bk . xi . lines 78 , 79 : " The Thracian women As many fas consenting to this wicked act were ound . " 10. brandish'd ] See note at line 3 . Spenser has " his brandisht blade " ( Faerie Queene , II . xi . 37 ) . II . dragon's ...
... Ovid , bk . xi . lines 78 , 79 : " The Thracian women As many fas consenting to this wicked act were ound . " 10. brandish'd ] See note at line 3 . Spenser has " his brandisht blade " ( Faerie Queene , II . xi . 37 ) . II . dragon's ...
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... Ovid , ii . 81 , 819 ( 1567 ) : - " And in the latter end The fatall dame , shall breake thy threede . " Without any ect reference to the Fates , compare ( eele's ) Jack Straw ( Hazlitt's Dodsley , v . 409 ) : " When thread of life is ...
... Ovid , ii . 81 , 819 ( 1567 ) : - " And in the latter end The fatall dame , shall breake thy threede . " Without any ect reference to the Fates , compare ( eele's ) Jack Straw ( Hazlitt's Dodsley , v . 409 ) : " When thread of life is ...
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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.