Frases de George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne foi um poeta inglês. Era o filho mais velho de Sir John Gascoigne de Cardington, Bedfordshire.

Estudou no Trinity College de Cambridge, tendo trabalhado como advogado. Esteve na prisão por dívidas. Ingressou no Parlamento em representação de Bedford, Bedfordshire em 1557-1558 e 1558-1559. Wikipedia  

✵ 1525 – 7. Outubro 1577
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George Gascoigne: Frases em inglês

“Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.”

George Gascoigne

"The Fruites of Warre", line 467, from The Posies (1575); p. 412.

“Master Gascoigne is not to bee abridged of his deserved esteeme, who first beate the path to that perfection which our best Poets have aspired too since his departure.”

George Gascoigne

Thomas Nashe, Preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), cited from G. Gregory Smith (ed.) Elizabethan Critical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1904) vol. 1, p. 315.
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“Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilld with lullabie.”

George Gascoigne

"The Lullabie of a Lover", line 7; p. 272.
A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)

“From shortly after his death until the present Gascoigne's reputation as the foremost poet of his generation and as a precursor of the great Elizabethans has remained constant.”

George Gascoigne

G. W. Pigman III, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 21, p. 585.
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