The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... thought too pregnant before , shall be now looked upon as the greatest benefactor to Englishmen , that must acknowledge all the felicity of wit and words to this derivation . You may here find passions raised to that excellent pitch ...
... thought too pregnant before , shall be now looked upon as the greatest benefactor to Englishmen , that must acknowledge all the felicity of wit and words to this derivation . You may here find passions raised to that excellent pitch ...
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... thought proper to be farther represented , it was by private order from the court silenced . This was the reason Mr. Waller undertook the altering the latter part of that play , as it is now printed in the last edition of his works ...
... thought proper to be farther represented , it was by private order from the court silenced . This was the reason Mr. Waller undertook the altering the latter part of that play , as it is now printed in the last edition of his works ...
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... thoughts and words , which are the fourth and fifth beauties of tragedy , are certainly more noble and more poetical in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them somewhat more equitable than Mr. Rymer has ...
... thoughts and words , which are the fourth and fifth beauties of tragedy , are certainly more noble and more poetical in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them somewhat more equitable than Mr. Rymer has ...
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... thought it no disparagement to submit his writings to his correction . Mr. Fletcher's wit was equal to Mr ... thoughts with life and briskness . No man ever understood or drew the passions more lively than he ; and his witty raillery was ...
... thought it no disparagement to submit his writings to his correction . Mr. Fletcher's wit was equal to Mr ... thoughts with life and briskness . No man ever understood or drew the passions more lively than he ; and his witty raillery was ...
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... thought felt not her very sorrow . " " 6 Act iv , scene the last . There is something extremely tender , innocent , and delicate , in these lines of Shakespeare , but our authors are far beyond this praise in their allusion to the same ...
... thought felt not her very sorrow . " " 6 Act iv , scene the last . There is something extremely tender , innocent , and delicate , in these lines of Shakespeare , but our authors are far beyond this praise in their allusion to the same ...
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Page 381 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page lxxxix - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page xxvii - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page xcii - 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 xlii - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page x - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page xlix - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page xxv - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page x - Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.
Page 357 - Lowly do I bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits ; and but lend Belief to that the Satyr tells, Fairer by the famous wells To this present day ne'er grew, Never better, nor more true. Here be grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrels...