The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... editions of their works , and in every notice of their joint productions , notwithstanding Fletcher's seniority , the name of Beaumont stands first . Their connection , from similarity of taste and studies , was very intimate ; they ...
... editions of their works , and in every notice of their joint productions , notwithstanding Fletcher's seniority , the name of Beaumont stands first . Their connection , from similarity of taste and studies , was very intimate ; they ...
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... edition of these plays in this volume having found that accept- ance as to give us encouragement to make a second ... edition , but are now inserted in their proper places . Besides , in this edition you have the addition of no fewer ...
... edition of these plays in this volume having found that accept- ance as to give us encouragement to make a second ... edition , but are now inserted in their proper places . Besides , in this edition you have the addition of no fewer ...
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... editions , you have sometimes Beaumont's and Fletcher's name , and sometimes the latter's . singly before the same ... edition , have all their full quotas of head and tail - pieces ; and of these we have , there are few that speak out ...
... editions , you have sometimes Beaumont's and Fletcher's name , and sometimes the latter's . singly before the same ... edition , have all their full quotas of head and tail - pieces ; and of these we have , there are few that speak out ...
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... edition in folio of all their plays pub- lished , containing those formerly printed in quarto , and those in the before - mentioned folio edition . Several of the Commendatory Verses are left out before that impression ; but many of ...
... edition in folio of all their plays pub- lished , containing those formerly printed in quarto , and those in the before - mentioned folio edition . Several of the Commendatory Verses are left out before that impression ; but many of ...
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... edition of the two great poets , who , with a fate in each case alike unjust , were extolled for near a century after their deaths , as equals , rivals , nay , superiors to the immortal Shakespeare ; but in the present age have been ...
... edition of the two great poets , who , with a fate in each case alike unjust , were extolled for near a century after their deaths , as equals , rivals , nay , superiors to the immortal Shakespeare ; but in the present age have been ...
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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...