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... true classicism , zoned with the cestus of beauty , her palpitant bosom defended by the aegis of law , her brow exalted and profound , had this spirit yielded up the heart of her mystery to him ? He beheld her there , shining in the ...
... true classicism , zoned with the cestus of beauty , her palpitant bosom defended by the aegis of law , her brow exalted and profound , had this spirit yielded up the heart of her mystery to him ? He beheld her there , shining in the ...
Page vii
... true literary faith . Compared in its animus and method with La Critique de I'Ecole des Femmes , or , better still , with L'Impromptu de Versailles , how ursine it all is ! Moliere is the peerless fencer who only smiles disdainfully ...
... true literary faith . Compared in its animus and method with La Critique de I'Ecole des Femmes , or , better still , with L'Impromptu de Versailles , how ursine it all is ! Moliere is the peerless fencer who only smiles disdainfully ...
Page xxix
... true . In this connection , we must turn to Cynthia's Revels , en- tered Sta . Reg . May 23 , 1601. Small { Stage - Quarrel 24 ) finds internal evidence placing the production of this play in the latter part of 1600 , perhaps as late as ...
... true . In this connection , we must turn to Cynthia's Revels , en- tered Sta . Reg . May 23 , 1601. Small { Stage - Quarrel 24 ) finds internal evidence placing the production of this play in the latter part of 1600 , perhaps as late as ...
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... true , as Penniman says , that in August and September of 1599 Jonson was writing plays with Dekker : note the payments by Henslowe ( Diary 155-6 ) to Jonson , Dekker , and others for the Page of Plymouth , and Robert the Second , King ...
... true , as Penniman says , that in August and September of 1599 Jonson was writing plays with Dekker : note the payments by Henslowe ( Diary 155-6 ) to Jonson , Dekker , and others for the Page of Plymouth , and Robert the Second , King ...
Page lvi
... true one , is that Hermo- genes as here presented is drawn exclusively from the char- acterization of him in Horace and the historians . At all events , he is neither Samuel Daniel nor John Daniel . Histrio . As there is much debate ...
... true one , is that Hermo- genes as here presented is drawn exclusively from the char- acterization of him in Horace and the historians . At all events , he is neither Samuel Daniel nor John Daniel . Histrio . As there is much debate ...
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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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