Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, 第 10 巻

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Percy Society, 1844

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143 ページ - Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true description of the several Pageants, with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the several Songs sung at this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.
107 ページ - The lord mayor was so struck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the disgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of which he died soon after.
xix ページ - The manner of these plays were, every company had his pageant or part, which pageants were a high scaffold with two rooms, a higher and a lower, upon four wheels. In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher room they played, being all open on the top, that all beholders might hear and see them.
199 ページ - ... got up into a great oak, that had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we stayed all the day.
57 ページ - If I were to be consulted as to a Reprint of our Old English Dramatists, I should advise to begin with the collected Plays of Heywood. He was a fellow Actor, and fellow Dramatist, with Shakspeare. He possessed not the imagination of the latter ; but in all those qualities which gained for Shakspeare the attribute of gentle, he was not inferior to him.
77 ページ - That they were commonly exhibited at this period also appears by a familiar allusion made in Marston's "Dutch Courtezan," acted 1605 ; — " yet all will scarce make me so high as one of the gyant's stilts that stalks before my Lord Mayor's pageants.
199 ページ - I was, and consulting with him what we should do the next day, he told me that it would be very dangerous for me either to stay in that house, or to go into the wood, there being a great wood hard by Boscobel ; that he knew but one way how to pass the next day, and that was, to get up into a great oak, in a pretty plain place, where we might see round about us ; for the enemy would certainly search at the wood for people that had made their escape.
57 ページ - Generosity, courtesy, temperance in the depths of passion; sweetness, in a word, and gentleness ; Christianism ; and true hearty Anglicism of feelings, shaping that Christianism ; shine throughout his beautiful writings in a manner more conspicuous than in those of Shakespeare, but only more conspicuous, inasmuch as in Heywood these qualities are primary, in the other subordinate to poetry.
xiv ページ - Next day he appeared, and requested that, for the future, the Cobblers of Flanders might bear for their arms a boot with the emperor's crown upon it. That request was granted, and, as his ambition was so moderate, the emperor bade him make another.
126 ページ - They fortunate are, and valiant in war. Free. They were so. Hoyd. Che very well knew 'um. Bill. Some of them were lords. Hoyd. Some of 'em wore cords, And went up to hangum tuum. Bill. Do you...

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