"Kyd" Quotes from Famous Books
... the members of the other services. The club house, as many people will recollect, originally stood on the site of Chowringhee Mansions. It was quite an ordinary looking dwelling enclosed by a brick-wall skirting Chowringhee Road, and the building extended for some little distance down Kyd Street. In addition to the club house itself, there were several other houses in Park Street attached to it, and I think where the Masonic Lodge has now its habitation was once their property. Before the war the members in the cold weather used to give an "At ... — Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey
... your gifts are rare, And you offer wondrous faire; Lalus for Lambe, Cleon for Kyd, 'Tis hard to iudge which most doth bid, 130 And haue you two such things in store, And I n'er knew of them before? Well yet I dare a Wager lay That Brag my little Dog shall play, As dainty tricks when I shall bid, As Lalus Lambe, or Cleons Kid. But t' may fall out that I may ... — Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
... They are especially important in developing the theme of romantic love with real fineness of feeling and thus helping to prepare the way for Shakspere in a very important particular. In marked contrast to these men is Thomas Kyd, who about the year 1590 attained a meteoric reputation with crude 'tragedies of blood,' specialized descendants of Senecan tragedy, one of which may have been the early play on Hamlet which Shakspere used as ... — A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher |