Timber, Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and MatterGinn, 1892 - 166 pages |
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... prose appears . There can be no greater contrast than exists between the prose style usual at that time- — a style tourmenté , choked with quotation , twisted in every direction by allusion and conceit , and marred by perpetual ...
... prose appears . There can be no greater contrast than exists between the prose style usual at that time- — a style tourmenté , choked with quotation , twisted in every direction by allusion and conceit , and marred by perpetual ...
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... prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher claim is to be found in the sound sense , discriminating judgment , and lofty moral senti- ment with which the work is pervaded , and in the ...
... prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher claim is to be found in the sound sense , discriminating judgment , and lofty moral senti- ment with which the work is pervaded , and in the ...
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... prose . There is internal evidence , too , pointing to an intent to publish , in the words : " I had not told posterity this but for their igno- rance , who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ...
... prose . There is internal evidence , too , pointing to an intent to publish , in the words : " I had not told posterity this but for their igno- rance , who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ...
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... prose . As Whalley said long ago ( ed . Jonson , vii . p . 71 ) , and as the title of the work imports , " Many of the following passages are imitations or observations made upon the authors of Jonson's daily read- ing " ; and I may add ...
... prose . As Whalley said long ago ( ed . Jonson , vii . p . 71 ) , and as the title of the work imports , " Many of the following passages are imitations or observations made upon the authors of Jonson's daily read- ing " ; and I may add ...
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... prose writers and poets of antiquity in solution in his spa- cious memory . He did not need to dovetail or weld his borrowings into one another , but rather , having fused them in his own mind , poured them plastically forth into the ...
... prose writers and poets of antiquity in solution in his spa- cious memory . He did not need to dovetail or weld his borrowings into one another , but rather , having fused them in his own mind , poured them plastically forth into the ...
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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...