Elizabethans

Nothing is more notorious than the gorgeous individualism and personality of those flamboyant monsters whom we call the Elizabethans, unless it be the absence of that quality in the great French writers of the next age.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

Yet there were days when Flaubert was too cruel for her, days when to read the Elizabethans was a mockery, and in these moods Remy de Gourment could amuse her thought.

DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920

Orientals and worse, enter the ruling class, and are received without surprise; names that recall the Elizabethans go out, and are not mourned.

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

The Elizabethans, that is, had not discovered the secret of the long poem; the abstract idea of the "heroic" epic which was in all their minds had to wait for embodiment till _Paradise Lost_.

English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

Browning, translator of Aeschylus of Theocritus, gave proof in her original poetry of a vigour, of a vividness, and of a vigorous exuberance of similes that often recalled the Elizabethans, but marred her work by declamatory rhetoric and by a tormented and often obscure style.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

Essentially handfasting to the Elizabethans was a ritual in which a couple married each other, which took the place of time until the couple married each other (again) in the church.

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Centuries later, wealthy Elizabethans collected them as tourist trinkets to show off where they'd been—like snapping a family portrait at Pompeii, only one cut out of lava.

Cue the Cameo 2011

The metaphor of science as a relay race is exposed as unsatisfactory: cultures overlap, enrich and stimulate each other, and 10th-century Arab scholars greedy for understanding form a community with 16th-century Elizabethans or 21st-century Cambridge dons.

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010

Photograph by Alexia S | Styling by Sara Ruffin Costello Miranda and Orlando on the roof -- the Elizabethans used the turrets as dining pavilions.

Life at Burghley David Netto 2011

All male Elizabethans wore hats in public and in private, and Shakespeare means to show by this that the devilishness which others see in him is brought about by their biased expectations of a Jew.

Recognizing Shylock on the Street 2010