Englische Studien, Volume 39

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Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Arthur Kölbing, Reinald Hoops, Albert Wagner
O.R. Reisland, 1908
"Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly).
 

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Page 120 - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 134 - That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation and become Queen of the Continent, instead of vapouring, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time.
Page 295 - Although not half so good as that, it has entered many a tranquil, happy, pure, and hospitable home; and the author, while deeply grateful for this genial reception, ascribes it partly to the fact that his story contains no word or thought disloyal to its birthright in the fairest county of England.
Page 230 - ... a double sale of their labours, first to the stage, and after to the press. for my own part I here proclaim myself ever faithful in the first, and never guilty of the last.
Page 402 - Stinkard has the selfe-same libertie to be there in his Tobacco-Fumes, which your sweet Courtier hath : and that your Car-man and Tinker claime as strong a voice in their suffrage, and sit to give judgment on the plaies...
Page 67 - And as I thus sadly amonge them auysid, I saw Gower, that first garnisshed our Englysshe rude, And maister Chaucer, that nobly enterprysyd How that our Englysshe myght fresshely be ennewed ; The monke of Bury then after them ensuyd...
Page 298 - Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Page 121 - And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke, From thence to honour thee I would not seeke For names; but call forth thundring /Eschilus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy buskin...
Page 408 - ... factors, and prentices to spend their patrimonies and masters' estates upon us and our harlots in taverns. . . We shall for the future promise never to admit into our sixpenny rooms those unwholesome enticing harlots that sit there merely to be taken up by apprentices or lawyers' clerks.'1 Young men came to find their partners for the evening there, as some do now at Music-halls.
Page 44 - The lytil suete nyghtingale, and song So loud and clere, the ympnis consecrat Of luvis use, now soft now lowd among, That all the...

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