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... Printed for M. L. and are to be fould in | Saint Dunitans Church - yarde . | 16o2. | Quarto . Collation .- [ A ] to N in fours ( series J omitted ) ; no pagination . Title - page as above , without sig- nature ; verso , THE PERSONS THAT ...
... Printed for M. L. and are to be fould in | Saint Dunitans Church - yarde . | 16o2. | Quarto . Collation .- [ A ] to N in fours ( series J omitted ) ; no pagination . Title - page as above , without sig- nature ; verso , THE PERSONS THAT ...
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... Printed by William Stanfby . \ An " D. 1616. \ Folio . Collation.2 — Five leaves : title - page , verso blank ; catalogue recto , with signature ¶ 3 , verso bearing the begin- ning of the complimentary verses , which cover also the ...
... Printed by William Stanfby . \ An " D. 1616. \ Folio . Collation.2 — Five leaves : title - page , verso blank ; catalogue recto , with signature ¶ 3 , verso bearing the begin- ning of the complimentary verses , which cover also the ...
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... Printed by W. Stansby , for M. Lownes . | 1616 | POETASTER , | OR | His Arraignement . | A Comicall Satyre . | Acted , in the yeere 1601. By the then | Children of Queene ELIZABETHS CHAPPEL . | The Author B. I. | Mart . | Et mihi de ...
... Printed by W. Stansby , for M. Lownes . | 1616 | POETASTER , | OR | His Arraignement . | A Comicall Satyre . | Acted , in the yeere 1601. By the then | Children of Queene ELIZABETHS CHAPPEL . | The Author B. I. | Mart . | Et mihi de ...
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... Printed by VVILLIAM STANSBY . The title - pages of Cynthia's Revels , Sejanus , Volpone , Epicoene , the Alehemist , and Catiline , are the same in this respect ; but that of Every Man out of his Humour reads : Printed by W. Stansby ...
... Printed by VVILLIAM STANSBY . The title - pages of Cynthia's Revels , Sejanus , Volpone , Epicoene , the Alehemist , and Catiline , are the same in this respect ; but that of Every Man out of his Humour reads : Printed by W. Stansby ...
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... Printed in Two Volumes , are now Re- printed in One . To which is added | A COMEDY , | CALLED THE NEVV INN . | With Additions never before ' The device of a satyr's head appears on the title - pages of all the plays in this folio except ...
... Printed in Two Volumes , are now Re- printed in One . To which is added | A COMEDY , | CALLED THE NEVV INN . | With Additions never before ' The device of a satyr's head appears on the title - pages of all the plays in this folio except ...
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Page lxxxviii - Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage ; wherein a second pen had good share...
Page lxxvii - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 207 - Jonson) is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Page 200 - ... it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language, and humour, also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he 'knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
Page xxvii - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him,' wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to vénerie.
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Page xxxv - Romae seu fors ita iusserit exsul, quisquis erit vitae scribam color, 'o puer, ut sis 60 vitalis metuo, et maiorum ne quis amicus frigore te feriat.' quid, cum est Lucilius ausus primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem, detrahere et pellem, nitidus qua quisque per ora cederet, introrsum turpis, num Laelius aut qui 65 duxit ab oppressa meritum Carthagine nomen ingenio offensi aut laeso doluere Metello famosisque Lupo cooperto versibus?
Page lxxvi - It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking.
Page 207 - ... after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth); a dissembler of ill parts which raigne in him, a bragger of some good that he wanteth; thinketh nothing well bot what either he himself or some of his friends and countrymen hath said or done; he is passionately kynde and angry; careless either to gaine or keep; vindicative, but, if he be well answered, at himself.
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