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Page xxix
... players have retained Demetrius in order to attack the successful drama- tist and regain their own lost patronage . Lastly , note lines 180-1 of the Apologetical Dialogue of Poetaster : POL . Yes they fay you are flow , And scarfe bring ...
... players have retained Demetrius in order to attack the successful drama- tist and regain their own lost patronage . Lastly , note lines 180-1 of the Apologetical Dialogue of Poetaster : POL . Yes they fay you are flow , And scarfe bring ...
Page xl
... player who is said by Lupus to have discovered to him the ' libel ' written by Horace upon Caesar , Tucca says ( 5. 3. 112-3 ) : ' I , an honest fycophant - like flaue , and a politician , besides . ' Aesop is called in , and , though ...
... player who is said by Lupus to have discovered to him the ' libel ' written by Horace upon Caesar , Tucca says ( 5. 3. 112-3 ) : ' I , an honest fycophant - like flaue , and a politician , besides . ' Aesop is called in , and , though ...
Page xliv
... Players - the allusions being directly to Poetaster . Warning him that his bitter riddling may draw down retaliation in kind , they still profess a willing- ness to forgive the past , and end by shaking hands with Horace in token of ...
... Players - the allusions being directly to Poetaster . Warning him that his bitter riddling may draw down retaliation in kind , they still profess a willing- ness to forgive the past , and end by shaking hands with Horace in token of ...
Page li
... players , who had their own reasons for hating Jonson . Several facts make such a wanton attack improb- able : 1 ) Jonson , as Drummond later found , was ' jealous [ pace Gifford ] of every word and action of those about him ...
... players , who had their own reasons for hating Jonson . Several facts make such a wanton attack improb- able : 1 ) Jonson , as Drummond later found , was ' jealous [ pace Gifford ] of every word and action of those about him ...
Page lvi
... player ) , it will be best to consider Jonson's presentation first . He is a player ( 3. 4. 129 ff . , 309-11 ) ; he has the Fortune theatre on his side , and is growing rich and purchasing ( 3. 4. 134-6 ) , though he was once a poor ...
... player ) , it will be best to consider Jonson's presentation first . He is a player ( 3. 4. 129 ff . , 309-11 ) ; he has the Fortune theatre on his side , and is growing rich and purchasing ( 3. 4. 134-6 ) , though he was once a poor ...
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Page cii - Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage ; wherein a second pen had good share...
Page 223 - Jonson) is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Page 216 - ... it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language, and humour, also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he 'knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
Page xci - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page xxv - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him,' wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to vénerie.
Page 143 - Slid, the boy takes me for a piece of perspective, I hold my life, or some silk curtain, come to hang the stage here ! Sir crack, I am none of your fresh pictures, that use to beautify the decayed dead arras in a public theatre.
Page xc - It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking.
Page 236 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens that they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.
Page 160 - Roger, thou know'st the length of my foot; as it is none of the biggest, so I thank God, it is handsome enough; prithee, let me have a pair of shoes made, cork, good Roger, wooden heel too.
Page 152 - Why, man, all their drippingpans ... are pure gold ; and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold ; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold ; and for rubies and diamonds they go forth on holidays and gather 'em by the seashore to hang on their children's coats, and stick in their children's caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron-gilt brooches and groats with holes in 'em.