...historical than epic, and, as Sismondi says, " it is sometimes merely a rhymed gazette." In lyric poetry at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century we find a brilliant list of writers ; among them, the two brothers Argensola, who wrote with taste...

...Quixote must be aware of the enthusiasm with which romances of chivalry were admired by the Spaniards, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the reign of Charles V. this passion became almost an epidemic; for then the art of printing gave...

...xx; Vol. in. p. 4.) MABTIH SKIDELIOS. MASTIN SEIDELIUS, (Germ. SEIDEL,) of Olhau, in Silesia, lived at the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was, in no sense of the word, a believer in Christianity, and is therefore not included in Sandius's...

...historical than epic, and, as Sismondi says, " it is sometimes merely a rhymed gazette." In lyric poetry at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century we find a brilliant list of writers ; among them, the two brothers Argensola, who wrote with taste...

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...Society is one of great interest and value. It contains the names of four hundred and fifty persons, who at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, had crossed from Britain to Holland, and were then living in Amsterdam, and many of whom ultimately...

...furnishes somewhat more than four hundred and fifty volumes, among which are many 4to. plays, published at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, some of them noticeable for their rarity and interest. Of no dramatist, however, is there a complete...

...blamed for its existence.4 Several divines of the Belgic Church had demurred at these doctrines ; and at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, Jacob Van Harmin, or Arminius, a pastor of Amsterdam, broached the 1 Non habet vim sine Spiritu Sancto...

...repose. It is all but universally [either Renaissance, or a combination of the styles which flourished at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, and of which the magnificent travelling bureau, made for the Marechal de Crequy, now in the Hotel do...

...The weight of evidence shows, as has been suggested, that in the " war of the theaters " which raged at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century Shakespeare took no active part ; he was by nature free from the narrowness of partisanship, and there...