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admiration Æneid afterwards appear Ariosto artist became Bishop Boccaccio Bramante Cardinal celebrated Cervantes character Charles Chaucer church Copernicus Correggio court death Decameron died doctrines Duke Duke of Guise edition Emperor employed England engraved Erasmus Ermeland executed expression father favour Ferrara Florence Florentine France frescoes genius Giovanni Henry Holy honour Italian Italy Julius King King's language Latin latter learning Lionardo Lodovico il Moro Lorenzo Luther Madonna master Medici ment Michael Angelo Milan noble occasion Orlando Furioso painted painter palace Paris parliament party person Perugia Perugino Petrarch picture poem poet Pope portrait possession prince probably Protestant published Queen Raleigh Raphael received Reformation returned Ridolfo Ghirlandajo Roman Rome says sent sion soon Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit style supposed talents taste tion Titian took Urbino Vasari Venice Vinci Wiclif Ximenes
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477. oldal - Malone has observed, that our author's prose compositions, should they be discovered, would exhibit the same perspicuity, the same cadence, the same elegance and vigour, which we find in his plays. In 1751, an attempt was made to impose on the public by a book entitled ' A Compendious or Brief Examination of certayne Ordinary Complaints of divers of our Countrymen in these our Days, &c., by William Shakspeare, Gentleman ; ' the signature to which, in the original edition of 1581, was " WS, Gent.;"...
432. oldal - She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said, " No, Robin, I am not well," and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days, and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. I...
475. oldal - Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with construction, but that he never advanced to an easy perusal of the Roman authors. Concerning his skill in modern languages, I can find no sufficient ground of determination; but as no imitations of French or Italian authors have been discovered, though the Italian poetry was then high in esteem, I am inclined to believe, that he read little more than English, and chose for his fables only such tales as he found translated.
66. oldal - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects...
356. oldal - ... equal to the elegance of his taste, and to the purity and vigour of his style, his history might be placed on a level with the most admired compositions of the ancients. But, instead of rejecting the improbable tales of chronicle writers, he was at the utmost pains to adorn them ; and hath clothed, with all the beauties and graces of fiction, those legends, which formerly had only its wildness and extravagance.
169. oldal - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
497. oldal - behaved himself so worthily, so wisely, and so temperately, that in half a day the mind of all the company was changed from the extremest hate to the extremest pity.
58. oldal - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over
226. oldal - Mexicans, that their ancestors came originally from a remote region, and conquered the provinces now subject to his dominion; that after they were settled there, the great captain who conducted this colony, returned to his own country, promising that at some future period his descendants should visit them, assume the government, and reform their constitution and...
181. oldal - I wish he had not defeated the effect of them by his intolerable faults. But, if he had written every thing in the most unexceptionable manner, I had no inclination to die for the sake of truth. Every man has not the courage requisite to make a martyr ; and I am afraid that, if I were put to the trial, I should imitate St. Peter.