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... observes ; " It is not so remote in time , but very many gentlemen may remember these authors ; and some , familiar in their conversation , deliver them upon every pleasant occasion so fluent , to talk a comedy . He must be a bold man ...
... observes ; " It is not so remote in time , but very many gentlemen may remember these authors ; and some , familiar in their conversation , deliver them upon every pleasant occasion so fluent , to talk a comedy . He must be a bold man ...
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... observes , " what was the precise nature of Nat Fletcher's ' servitude , we have no informa- tion . " It was doubtless the soft slavery of love ; servant in the sense of lover occurs repeatedly in the present volumes . — Mr . Collier ...
... observes , " what was the precise nature of Nat Fletcher's ' servitude , we have no informa- tion . " It was doubtless the soft slavery of love ; servant in the sense of lover occurs repeatedly in the present volumes . — Mr . Collier ...
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... observes Mr. Darley , " would prove our author indeed a precocious genius , as Every Man in his Humour was produced in 1596 , when Beaumont was but ten years old . " Introd . to the Works of B. and F. , p . xix . Beaumont may have been ...
... observes Mr. Darley , " would prove our author indeed a precocious genius , as Every Man in his Humour was produced in 1596 , when Beaumont was but ten years old . " Introd . to the Works of B. and F. , p . xix . Beaumont may have been ...
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... observe that the following passage in Richard Brome's verses To his Memory is to be interpreted only of Fletcher's remarkable facility in dramatic composition ; Brome does not mean that he made writing a mere pastime without regard to ...
... observe that the following passage in Richard Brome's verses To his Memory is to be interpreted only of Fletcher's remarkable facility in dramatic composition ; Brome does not mean that he made writing a mere pastime without regard to ...
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... observes ; " The plot is most absurdly managed . It turns on the suspicion of Arethusa's infidelity . And the sole ground of this is that an abandoned woman , being detected herself , accuses the princess of unchastity . Not a shadow of ...
... observes ; " The plot is most absurdly managed . It turns on the suspicion of Arethusa's infidelity . And the sole ground of this is that an abandoned woman , being detected herself , accuses the princess of unchastity . Not a shadow of ...
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Page lii - 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 liii - 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 ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty...
Page lxxxvii - The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments, And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune, Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done To youth and nature. This is all our world : We shall know nothing here, but one another ; Hear nothing, but the clock that tells our woes. The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it : Summer shall come, and with her all delights, But dead-cold winter must inhabit here still.
Page lxxv - Playes they did write together; were great friends, And now one grave includes them in their ends. So whom on earth nothing did part, beneath Here (in their Fames) they lie, in spight of death.
Page liii - How I do love thee, BEAUMONT, and thy Muse, That unto me dost such religion use ! How I do fear myself, that am not worth The least indulgent thought thy pen drops forth!
Page lii - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page lxxxvi - ; who dost pluck With hand armipotent " from forth blue clouds The mason' d turrets ; that both mak'st and break'st The stony girths of cities ; me thy pupil, Youngest follower of thy drum, instruct this day With military skill, that to thy laud I may advance my streamer, and by thee Be styl'd the lord o...
Page xlviii - Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done.
Page lii - 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 lxxxv - Speak't in a woman's key, like such a woman As any of us three; weep ere you fail; Lend us a knee; But touch the ground for us no longer time Than a dove's motion when the head's plucked off; Tell him, if he i...