Timber, Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and MatterGinn, 1892 - 166 pages |
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... doth a man misspend the better part of life in ! in scattering 5 compliments , tendering visits , gathering and venting news , following feasts and plays , making a little winter- love in a dark corner . - Hypocrita . — Puritanus ...
... doth a man misspend the better part of life in ! in scattering 5 compliments , tendering visits , gathering and venting news , following feasts and plays , making a little winter- love in a dark corner . - Hypocrita . — Puritanus ...
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... doth more invite a greedy reader than an unlooked - for subject . And what more unlooked - for than to see a person of an unblamed life made ridiculous or odious by the artifice of lying ? Sed seculi morbus . But it 25 is the disease of ...
... doth more invite a greedy reader than an unlooked - for subject . And what more unlooked - for than to see a person of an unblamed life made ridiculous or odious by the artifice of lying ? Sed seculi morbus . But it 25 is the disease of ...
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... doth the second : he dies between ; the possession is the third's . 20 Eloquentia . - Eloquence is a great and diverse thing : 15 nor did she yet ever favor any man so much as to be- come wholly his . He is happy that can arrive to any ...
... doth the second : he dies between ; the possession is the third's . 20 Eloquentia . - Eloquence is a great and diverse thing : 15 nor did she yet ever favor any man so much as to be- come wholly his . He is happy that can arrive to any ...
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... doth me an injury after a courtesy , takes not away the cour- 10 tesy , but defaces it : as he that writes other verses upon my verses , takes not away the first letters , but hides them . Beneficia . - Nothing is a courtesy unless it ...
... doth me an injury after a courtesy , takes not away the cour- 10 tesy , but defaces it : as he that writes other verses upon my verses , takes not away the first letters , but hides them . Beneficia . - Nothing is a courtesy unless it ...
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... doth emulate the judi- cious but preposterous bounty of the time's grandees , who accumulate all they can upon the parasite or fresh - man in their friendship ; but think an old client or honest 30 servant bound by his place to write ...
... doth emulate the judi- cious but preposterous bounty of the time's grandees , who accumulate all they can upon the parasite or fresh - man in their friendship ; but think an old client or honest 30 servant bound by his place to write ...
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Page 23 - Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power: would the rule of it had been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter ; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: " Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied: " Caesar did never wrong but with just cause," and such like ; which were ridiculous.
Page 30 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 31 - My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson very finely, " was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself; in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 23 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand !'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 149 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly...
Page 96 - But that which most doth take my Muse and me Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
Page 111 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 147 - As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 23 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 54 - In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care, in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely; and to do this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits or first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we...