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Elizabethan age

noun

A period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity.

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"Elizabethan age" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the writers of the Elizabethan age, and even in his time he found that this taste had become old-fashioned. He complained, when only twenty-one years old, in a letter to Coleridge, that all his friends "read nothing but reviews and new books." His letters, like ...

— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch

... Elizabethan age was more famous than John Dowland, whose "heavenly touch upon the lute" was commended in a well-known sonnet (long attributed to Shakespeare) by Richard Barnfield. Dowland was born at Westminster in 1562. At the age ...

— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

... the land, and were incorporated with the very being of the nation. Then, as the mist of doubt and persecution which had covered Mary's throne cleared away, the intellect of England, in all its health, and vigour, and symmetry, stood revealed in the men and women of the Elizabethan age:— ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various

Words linked to "Elizabethan age" : age, historic period