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... readers . From that commentary ( in which Heath has anticipated not a few of the corrections made by the Editors of 1778 and by Monck Mason ) I have derived , as will be seen , considerable benefit . To the following gentlemen I beg ...
... readers . From that commentary ( in which Heath has anticipated not a few of the corrections made by the Editors of 1778 and by Monck Mason ) I have derived , as will be seen , considerable benefit . To the following gentlemen I beg ...
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... readers with the private history of individuals who had attained celebrity by literature alone . When even the most illustrious poets went down to the grave , their relatives and friends paid them perhaps the tribute of some elegiac ...
... readers with the private history of individuals who had attained celebrity by literature alone . When even the most illustrious poets went down to the grave , their relatives and friends paid them perhaps the tribute of some elegiac ...
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... Reader , prefixed to the folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays , 1647 , Shirley observes ; " It is not so remote in time , but very many gentlemen may remember these authors ; and some , familiar in their conversation , deliver them ...
... Reader , prefixed to the folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays , 1647 , Shirley observes ; " It is not so remote in time , but very many gentlemen may remember these authors ; and some , familiar in their conversation , deliver them ...
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... reader ; and hence , on the title - pages of the subsequently - published quartos and of the two folio collections , the name of Beaumont retained its usual place . I shall now proceed with separate biographical accounts of the two ...
... reader ; and hence , on the title - pages of the subsequently - published quartos and of the two folio collections , the name of Beaumont retained its usual place . I shall now proceed with separate biographical accounts of the two ...
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... readers know that this illiterate man ( who never for a moment could have dreamed of " leaving a name behind him " ) figures as one of the characters in a work by a living German writer of acknowledged genius , -Dichterleben , a novel ...
... readers know that this illiterate man ( who never for a moment could have dreamed of " leaving a name behind him " ) figures as one of the characters in a work by a living German writer of acknowledged genius , -Dichterleben , a novel ...
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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...