A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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Page 48
... play of an ingenious fancy . In his best work , however , it has imaginative intensity and the effect of surprise : The growth of flesh is but a blister . Holy Baptism But we are still too young or old ; The Man is gone , Before we do ...
... play of an ingenious fancy . In his best work , however , it has imaginative intensity and the effect of surprise : The growth of flesh is but a blister . Holy Baptism But we are still too young or old ; The Man is gone , Before we do ...
Page 91
... play of an exasperated splutter of short phrases across the intricate stanza form , all impose on the reader the desired empha- sis , tone , and mood . Plainly the aim here is not sweetness , grace , or verbal melody , either for its ...
... play of an exasperated splutter of short phrases across the intricate stanza form , all impose on the reader the desired empha- sis , tone , and mood . Plainly the aim here is not sweetness , grace , or verbal melody , either for its ...
Page 119
... plays , slow down the tempo and detract from the unity of the effect . At the same time in the actual ' persons of the play ' there is , in much later Jacobean drama , a sense of wavering perspective , of incompleteness and scrappiness ...
... plays , slow down the tempo and detract from the unity of the effect . At the same time in the actual ' persons of the play ' there is , in much later Jacobean drama , a sense of wavering perspective , of incompleteness and scrappiness ...
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