The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson, ed., with notes, by R. Bell1876 |
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... true from the fictitious . It is obvious enough , however , that the special incidents of these pieces are mere inventions , and that the autobiographical element consists in the general resemblance they bear to his own fortune , and ...
... true from the fictitious . It is obvious enough , however , that the special incidents of these pieces are mere inventions , and that the autobiographical element consists in the general resemblance they bear to his own fortune , and ...
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... true version as that given in the text . It is incredible that , after having abandoned his wife , under circumstances of utter heartlessness , upwards of six years before , he would have written to her on his deathbed to ask her to pay ...
... true version as that given in the text . It is incredible that , after having abandoned his wife , under circumstances of utter heartlessness , upwards of six years before , he would have written to her on his deathbed to ask her to pay ...
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... these two plays , which are known to have been founded on two older pieces called The First Part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster , and The True Tragedie of Richard , Duke ROBERT GREENE . 27.
... these two plays , which are known to have been founded on two older pieces called The First Part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster , and The True Tragedie of Richard , Duke ROBERT GREENE . 27.
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Robert Greene Robert Bell. Lancaster , and The True Tragedie of Richard , Duke of York . Hence , by an obvious inference , the older pieces are supposed to have been written wholly , or in part , by Greene or his friends . The line in ...
Robert Greene Robert Bell. Lancaster , and The True Tragedie of Richard , Duke of York . Hence , by an obvious inference , the older pieces are supposed to have been written wholly , or in part , by Greene or his friends . The line in ...
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... true poetical feeling . Haste and negligence are visible throughout ; yet there are few of these snatches of verse that are not worth preserving for some slight trait of excellence , either in the thought or the expression . His ...
... true poetical feeling . Haste and negligence are visible throughout ; yet there are few of these snatches of verse that are not worth preserving for some slight trait of excellence , either in the thought or the expression . His ...
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Page 399 - The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise ; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Page 232 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 231 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 230 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 498 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 399 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 399 - For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers ; And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line ; And, though thou had'st small Latin and less Greek...
Page 271 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 298 - scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.