The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volumen2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 |
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... you read ; and thens tand , admiring the subtil tracks of your engagement . Fall on a scene of love , and you will never believe the writers could have the the least room left in their souls for another passion MR . SHIRLEY'S PREFACE .
... you read ; and thens tand , admiring the subtil tracks of your engagement . Fall on a scene of love , and you will never believe the writers could have the the least room left in their souls for another passion MR . SHIRLEY'S PREFACE .
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... fall , and make a twelve syllable verse , it will have a hundred fellows in our authors , and should have had one but three lines below the passage here quoted , " Make a dull silence , till you feel a sudden sadness Give us new souls ...
... fall , and make a twelve syllable verse , it will have a hundred fellows in our authors , and should have had one but three lines below the passage here quoted , " Make a dull silence , till you feel a sudden sadness Give us new souls ...
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... fall shorter of Shake- speare than in any other of their attempts to imitate him . What is the reason of this ? Is it that their genius improved by literature and polite conversation , could well describe men and manners , but had not ...
... fall shorter of Shake- speare than in any other of their attempts to imitate him . What is the reason of this ? Is it that their genius improved by literature and polite conversation , could well describe men and manners , but had not ...
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... fall , Grasp'd the whole tree , and single held up all . Imperial Fletcher ! here begins thy reign ; Scenes flow like sun - beams from thy glorious brain ; Thy swift - dispatching soul no more doth stay , Than he that built two cities ...
... fall , Grasp'd the whole tree , and single held up all . Imperial Fletcher ! here begins thy reign ; Scenes flow like sun - beams from thy glorious brain ; Thy swift - dispatching soul no more doth stay , Than he that built two cities ...
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... fall of Rome ; When Jonson , Shakespeare , and thyself did sit , And sway'd in the triumvirate of Wit . Yet what from Jonson's oil and sweat did flow , Or what more easy Nature did bestow On Shakespeare's gentler muse , in thee full ...
... fall of Rome ; When Jonson , Shakespeare , and thyself did sit , And sway'd in the triumvirate of Wit . Yet what from Jonson's oil and sweat did flow , Or what more easy Nature did bestow On Shakespeare's gentler muse , in thee full ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...