The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... Theobald , that here was a glaring poetical contradiction . She you'll find all true except the wild island , and instantly she is upon the island . “ I stand upon the sea - beach now , " & c . says , The wild island therefore in her ...
... Theobald , that here was a glaring poetical contradiction . She you'll find all true except the wild island , and instantly she is upon the island . “ I stand upon the sea - beach now , " & c . says , The wild island therefore in her ...
Page xxxvii
... Theobald's death , was all printed as prose , except about twenty lines towards the end ; but the reader will now find it as true measure as almost any comedy of our authors . I This stile runs through many of Beaumont's characters ...
... Theobald's death , was all printed as prose , except about twenty lines towards the end ; but the reader will now find it as true measure as almost any comedy of our authors . I This stile runs through many of Beaumont's characters ...
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... Theobald gained in the learned world , who had no other claim to honour but as a critic on Shakespeare . In this light his fame remains fresh and unblasted , though the lightning of Mr. Pope and the thunder of Mr. Warburton have been ...
... Theobald gained in the learned world , who had no other claim to honour but as a critic on Shakespeare . In this light his fame remains fresh and unblasted , though the lightning of Mr. Pope and the thunder of Mr. Warburton have been ...
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... THEOBALD . 26 That they , ( their own Black - Friars . ] i . e . their own theatre : meaning , that Fletcher's plays were so sprightly , that , though then unacted ( by reason of the troublesome times , and civil war which raged against ...
... THEOBALD . 26 That they , ( their own Black - Friars . ] i . e . their own theatre : meaning , that Fletcher's plays were so sprightly , that , though then unacted ( by reason of the troublesome times , and civil war which raged against ...
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... THEOBALD . Their shoulders to support a world of wit . ] I should not find fault with met and wit being made rhimes here , ( the poets of those times giving themselves such a licence ) but that two persons meeting their shoulders is ...
... THEOBALD . Their shoulders to support a world of wit . ] I should not find fault with met and wit being made rhimes here , ( the poets of those times giving themselves such a licence ) but that two persons meeting their shoulders is ...
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Page 381 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page lxxxix - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page xxvii - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page xcii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page xlii - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page x - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page xlix - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page xxv - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page x - Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.
Page 357 - Lowly do I bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits ; and but lend Belief to that the Satyr tells, Fairer by the famous wells To this present day ne'er grew, Never better, nor more true. Here be grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrels...