The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... Jonson , every body knows a little , and any body may know a great deal ; but Bourne thought that there must be something about their friends , acquaintances , and literary contemporaries , worth learning , and he thought rightly ...
... Jonson , every body knows a little , and any body may know a great deal ; but Bourne thought that there must be something about their friends , acquaintances , and literary contemporaries , worth learning , and he thought rightly ...
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... Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re - published dramatists , he knew more than many . The difference , therefore , be- tween him and Bourne was exactly this : he was acquainted with what every other person may ac- quire without difficulty ...
... Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re - published dramatists , he knew more than many . The difference , therefore , be- tween him and Bourne was exactly this : he was acquainted with what every other person may ac- quire without difficulty ...
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... Jonson , to Chapman , Drayton , and Nash , to Greene , Lodge , Hall , Mar- ston , Peele , Marlow , Daniel , and perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as ...
... Jonson , to Chapman , Drayton , and Nash , to Greene , Lodge , Hall , Mar- ston , Peele , Marlow , Daniel , and perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as ...
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... Jonson is unquestionably to know the three best poets of their age , but they were not the only poets , nor the only good poets , as you would yourself allow even with the information you possess regarding several of the writers who ...
... Jonson is unquestionably to know the three best poets of their age , but they were not the only poets , nor the only good poets , as you would yourself allow even with the information you possess regarding several of the writers who ...
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... Jonson and Massinger . Can you wonder then , notwithstanding the admitted disgrace brought upon the pursuit by unlearned knowledge , and the blind zeal of bibliomaniacs , who judge only of the value of books by their scarcity , that I ...
... Jonson and Massinger . Can you wonder then , notwithstanding the admitted disgrace brought upon the pursuit by unlearned knowledge , and the blind zeal of bibliomaniacs , who judge only of the value of books by their scarcity , that I ...
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Ben Jonson Bibliographer blank verse BOURNE called certainly Chapman copy curious dare say death DECAMERON Donne doth Drayton edition ELLIOT English satirist epigrams Epistle extract Fitzgeffrey Francis Meres George Chapman George Peele giue Hall hath haue hear heauen John John Marston John Webster Jonson kind Latin lines liue Lodge's Lord loue Marlow Marston mean mentioned Momus MORTON Muses Nash night noble observe Parasitaster passage Peele Peele's perhaps pieces Pigmalions play poem Poesie poet POETICAL DECAMERON poetry praise printed probably production prose published Queen quotation quoted rarity recollect remarkable reprint rhyme rime Ritson satires satirist Satyres seems seen Shakespeare Sidney Sir Francis Drake sonnet speaking specimen Spenser stanza suppose sweete thee thing Thomas thou tion tract translation vertue vnto vpon Webster Whetstone words worth writers written wrote
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Page 270 - Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
Page 22 - Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence ; yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Page xix - ... genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients.
Page 244 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 68 - ENTITLED To the noble and vertuous Gentleman, most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie, MA1STER PHILIP SIDNEY.
Page xliii - Of a Jew, who would for his Debt have a Pound of the Flesh of a Christian.
Page xliv - Wonder not (for with thee will I first begin), thou famous gracer of tragedians, that Greene, who hath said with thee like the fool in his heart, "There is no God...
Page 160 - twixt each drop, he nigardly, As loth to enrich mee, so tells many a lie. More than ten Hollensheads, or Halls, or Stowes, Of triviall houshold trash he knowes ; He knowes When the Queene frown'd, or smil'd, and he knowes what A subtle States-man may gather of that...
Page 251 - I can willinglyer conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever stuttered.
Page 90 - tis true ; but now, if any Should for that cause despise it, we have many Reasons, both just and pregnant, to maintain Antiquity, and those, too, not all vain. We know (and not long since) there was a time, Strong lines were not look'd after ; but if rhyme, Oh ! then 'twas excellent...