Elizabethian

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1817 1983, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=z9rWMikRadEC&pg=RA1-PA146&lpg=RA1-PA146&sig=YYOIMJP4bR3zEm6IXEtI3hPqWFUBoth in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: ...
1850 1996, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield http://print.google.com/print?id=O5F9a-NotOAC&pg=PA690&lpg=PA690&sig=ra5hfqe9tZ4HIzTl7qAViP25AAEThis was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind.
1995, Bruno Nettl, Heartland Excursions http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=wZZ1_pQJnKEC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&sig=n_Qm7hbutrSI5J_KnYizK7nfG2YThe correlation between costume and musical category is so strong that a hearing-impaired person could usually identify style and category by noting whether the musicians wear tuxedos, blazers, turtlenecks, robes, dhotis, Elizabethian garb, T-shirts with holes, or leather jackets.