The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volumen2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 |
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... gentleman did nothing more to the First Folio than writing the Preface ; we should not then so justly lament the incorrectness of that Edition , STATIONER'S GENTLEMEN , ( FOLIO , 1647. ) BEFORE EFORE you MR . SHIRLEY'S PREFACE . iii.
... gentleman did nothing more to the First Folio than writing the Preface ; we should not then so justly lament the incorrectness of that Edition , STATIONER'S GENTLEMEN , ( FOLIO , 1647. ) BEFORE EFORE you MR . SHIRLEY'S PREFACE . iii.
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... gentlemen were already furnished ; and I would have none say , they pay twice for the same book , One thing I must answer before it be objected ; ' tis this : when these comedies and tragedies were presented on the stage , the actors ...
... gentlemen were already furnished ; and I would have none say , they pay twice for the same book , One thing I must answer before it be objected ; ' tis this : when these comedies and tragedies were presented on the stage , the actors ...
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... gentlemen desired but a copy of any of these plays , the meanest piece here ( if any may be called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . I should scarce have adventured in ...
... gentlemen desired but a copy of any of these plays , the meanest piece here ( if any may be called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . I should scarce have adventured in ...
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... gentlemen's shirts of that age used to be ) he answers , " Base and degenerate cousin , dost not know An old and tatter'd colours to an enemy , Is of more honour , and shews more ominous ? This shirt five times victorious I've fought ...
... gentlemen's shirts of that age used to be ) he answers , " Base and degenerate cousin , dost not know An old and tatter'd colours to an enemy , Is of more honour , and shews more ominous ? This shirt five times victorious I've fought ...
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... gentleman of very distinguished literature , has in his Re- marks on Shakespeare followed this stile of triumph and insult over his rival critics , and as this gentleman will , I hope , long continue his services to the learned world ...
... gentleman of very distinguished literature , has in his Re- marks on Shakespeare followed this stile of triumph and insult over his rival critics , and as this gentleman will , I hope , long continue his services to the learned world ...
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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...