The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: In Fourteen Volumes: with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1J. Ballantyne, 1812 - 14 pages |
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... thee , Beaumont , and thy muse , That unto me dost such religion use ! " Ben Jonson seems to have had the highest ve- neration for the genius of his youthful friend ; and the manner in which he acknowledges the value he set upon his ...
... thee , Beaumont , and thy muse , That unto me dost such religion use ! " Ben Jonson seems to have had the highest ve- neration for the genius of his youthful friend ; and the manner in which he acknowledges the value he set upon his ...
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... thee sport without a fan . ” Finally , Lovelace , a poet of considerable fancy , holds up The Custom of the Country , the gross- est play in the collection , and which , as Dryden asserts , contains more bawdry than all the dramas of ...
... thee sport without a fan . ” Finally , Lovelace , a poet of considerable fancy , holds up The Custom of the Country , the gross- est play in the collection , and which , as Dryden asserts , contains more bawdry than all the dramas of ...
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... thee longer , be as ca- pricious and sick - brained as ignorance and malice Ingenuous reader . ] In Coles's Dict . 1677 , it is remarked , “ Ingenuous and ingenious are too often confounded . " - Ed , 1778 . can make thee , here thou ...
... thee longer , be as ca- pricious and sick - brained as ignorance and malice Ingenuous reader . ] In Coles's Dict . 1677 , it is remarked , “ Ingenuous and ingenious are too often confounded . " - Ed , 1778 . can make thee , here thou ...
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... thee , here thou art rectified ; or be as healthful as the inward calm of an honest heart , learning , and temper ... thee by another hand , in the following epistle of the Stationer to the Readers . Farewell : Read , and fear not thine ...
... thee , here thou art rectified ; or be as healthful as the inward calm of an honest heart , learning , and temper ... thee by another hand , in the following epistle of the Stationer to the Readers . Farewell : Read , and fear not thine ...
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... , 2 The prologue which Seward speaks of is taken verbatim from a play of Lilly's , which certainly lessens the confidence we should wish to place in his discernment . " Fate , once again Bring me to thee , SEWARD'S PREFACE . cli.
... , 2 The prologue which Seward speaks of is taken verbatim from a play of Lilly's , which certainly lessens the confidence we should wish to place in his discernment . " Fate , once again Bring me to thee , SEWARD'S PREFACE . cli.
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Page clxv - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page cxcvi - 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 clix - 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 xxxv - 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 lxx - Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots.
Page cl - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
Page 190 - Troul the black bowl to me ;" and a woman that will sing a catch in her travail. I have seen a man come by my door with a serious face, in a black cloak, without a hatband, carrying his head as if he look'd for pins in the street.
Page cxxxix - ... off, before he committed one word to writing, and never touched pen till all was to stand as firm and immutable as if engraven in brass or marble.
Page clix - em. he would weep, As if he meant to make 'em grow again. Seeing such pretty helpless innocence Dwell in his face, I ask'd him all his story. He told me, that his parents gentle died, Leaving him to the mercy of the fields, Which gave him roots ; and of the crystal springs, Which did not stop their courses ; and the sun, Which still, he thank'd him, yielded him his light.
Page 143 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.