The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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Page vii
... strange there should appear no greater diversity in their writings , when the separate parts came to be put together . For , unless I be greatly mistaken , we cannot say that here one laid down the pencil , and there the other took it ...
... strange there should appear no greater diversity in their writings , when the separate parts came to be put together . For , unless I be greatly mistaken , we cannot say that here one laid down the pencil , and there the other took it ...
Page xxxv
... strange delight . " * Take one of the rhimes from these , and write them in two lines , they are exactly the same with the French tragic and epic metre . " When Fanny blooming fair , first caught my ravish'd sight , Struck with her air ...
... strange delight . " * Take one of the rhimes from these , and write them in two lines , they are exactly the same with the French tragic and epic metre . " When Fanny blooming fair , first caught my ravish'd sight , Struck with her air ...
Page xlv
... strange absurdities in his notes on Milton , had this good effect , that they engaged a Pearce * to answer , and perhaps were the first motives to induce the greatest poet , the most universal genius , + one of the greatest orators ...
... strange absurdities in his notes on Milton , had this good effect , that they engaged a Pearce * to answer , and perhaps were the first motives to induce the greatest poet , the most universal genius , + one of the greatest orators ...
Page xlvi
... strange mistakes and blunders of former critics , to mens engaging in a science which they had neither learning nor talents to manage and adorn . Each thinking himself exempt from the censure , and each having it retorted upon him in ...
... strange mistakes and blunders of former critics , to mens engaging in a science which they had neither learning nor talents to manage and adorn . Each thinking himself exempt from the censure , and each having it retorted upon him in ...
Page lx
... strange production is at last display'd , Got by two fathers without female aid ! But I shall attempt no change in a science where I am ignorance itself . SEWARD . Thus Thus thy fair Shepherdess , which the bold heap ( Ix COMMENDATORY ...
... strange production is at last display'd , Got by two fathers without female aid ! But I shall attempt no change in a science where I am ignorance itself . SEWARD . Thus Thus thy fair Shepherdess , which the bold heap ( Ix COMMENDATORY ...
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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...