Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionJ. Warren, 1821 - 356 páginas |
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... Ben Jonson , Ford , and Massinger LECTURE V. On single Plays , Poems , & c . , the Four P's , the Return from Parnassus , Gammer Gurton's Needle , and other Works LECTURE VI . On Miscellaneous Poems , F. Beaumont , P. Fletcher , Drayton ...
... Ben Jonson , Ford , and Massinger LECTURE V. On single Plays , Poems , & c . , the Four P's , the Return from Parnassus , Gammer Gurton's Needle , and other Works LECTURE VI . On Miscellaneous Poems , F. Beaumont , P. Fletcher , Drayton ...
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... Ben Jonson's tragedies of Catiline and Sejanus may themselves be considered as almost literal translations into verse , of Tacitus , Sallust , and Cicero's Orations in his consulship . Boccacio , the divine Boccacio , Petrarch , Dante ...
... Ben Jonson's tragedies of Catiline and Sejanus may themselves be considered as almost literal translations into verse , of Tacitus , Sallust , and Cicero's Orations in his consulship . Boccacio , the divine Boccacio , Petrarch , Dante ...
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... Ben Jonson tried to overcome the diffi- culty by the force of learning and study ; and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse ; for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) , are the most ...
... Ben Jonson tried to overcome the diffi- culty by the force of learning and study ; and thought to gain his end by persisting in error ; but he only made matters worse ; for his clowns and coxcombs ( if we except Bobadil ) , are the most ...
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... Ben Jonson ; and he is most unfairly cri- ticised in The Return from Parnassus , under the name of Monsieur Kinsayder , as a mere libeller and buffoon . Writers in their life - time do all they can to degrade and vilify one ano- ther ...
... Ben Jonson ; and he is most unfairly cri- ticised in The Return from Parnassus , under the name of Monsieur Kinsayder , as a mere libeller and buffoon . Writers in their life - time do all they can to degrade and vilify one ano- ther ...
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... Ben Jonson's mother on this occa- sion is remarkable . " On his release from prison , he gave an entertainment to his friends , among whom were Camden and Selden . In the midst of the entertainment , his mother , more an an- tique Roman ...
... Ben Jonson's mother on this occa- sion is remarkable . " On his release from prison , he gave an entertainment to his friends , among whom were Camden and Selden . In the midst of the entertainment , his mother , more an an- tique Roman ...
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Página 301 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 255 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Página 252 - Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more...
Página 29 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Página 298 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 187 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 60 - Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Página 61 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Página 225 - A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Página 59 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.