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Page xxii
... Night , iii . 228 ( 1594 ) ) . Nashe tells the fable again in Lenten Stuffe , v . 258 . I. iv . 109. Make a quagmire of your mingled brains . " The plaine appeared like a quagmire , overspread as it was with trampled dead bodies ...
... Night , iii . 228 ( 1594 ) ) . Nashe tells the fable again in Lenten Stuffe , v . 258 . I. iv . 109. Make a quagmire of your mingled brains . " The plaine appeared like a quagmire , overspread as it was with trampled dead bodies ...
Page xxv
... night they were layd under his pillow , and by day were carried in the rich iewell cofer of Darius lately before vanquished by him in battaile . " Plutarch and Pliny mention the coffer , but the wording in the text is Puttenham's . At p ...
... night they were layd under his pillow , and by day were carried in the rich iewell cofer of Darius lately before vanquished by him in battaile . " Plutarch and Pliny mention the coffer , but the wording in the text is Puttenham's . At p ...
Page xxvi
... Night's Dream ) . Spenser's Shepheards Calender was published in 1579-1580 . As early as 1580 Spenser was known to be at work at his Faerie Queene , of which the first three books appeared in print in 1590. But they were known to many ...
... Night's Dream ) . Spenser's Shepheards Calender was published in 1579-1580 . As early as 1580 Spenser was known to be at work at his Faerie Queene , of which the first three books appeared in print in 1590. But they were known to many ...
Page xxvii
... night . . . whose pitchy mantle . Compare Faerie Queene , 1 . V. 20 : " Where griesly Night . . . in a foule blacke pitchy mantle clad . ” II . ii . 18 . our bloody massacre . Compare Faerie Queene , III . xi . 29 : " the huge massacres ...
... night . . . whose pitchy mantle . Compare Faerie Queene , 1 . V. 20 : " Where griesly Night . . . in a foule blacke pitchy mantle clad . ” II . ii . 18 . our bloody massacre . Compare Faerie Queene , III . xi . 29 : " the huge massacres ...
Page xxviii
... Night's Dream , and three times in Titus Andronicus . This ex- pression has naturally been cited as evidence of Greene's work , since he was very fond of the tag . But it is only in his plays , I think , that is to say in his late work ...
... Night's Dream , and three times in Titus Andronicus . This ex- pression has naturally been cited as evidence of Greene's work , since he was very fond of the tag . But it is only in his plays , I think , that is to say in his late work ...
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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.