The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... worthy of the pen of so great a master . " And this Mr. Cartwright alludes to , in his verses before the book . The following verses , put under his folio picture , were written by Sir John Berkenhead . Felicis avi , ac Prasulis natus ...
... worthy of the pen of so great a master . " And this Mr. Cartwright alludes to , in his verses before the book . The following verses , put under his folio picture , were written by Sir John Berkenhead . Felicis avi , ac Prasulis natus ...
Page xxiv
... worthy of memory , without a passion worked up with natural vigour , or a character of any distinguished marks . The best poets have rarely made this dramatic mechanism their point . Neither Sophocles , Euripides , Terence , Shake ...
... worthy of memory , without a passion worked up with natural vigour , or a character of any distinguished marks . The best poets have rarely made this dramatic mechanism their point . Neither Sophocles , Euripides , Terence , Shake ...
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... worthy of Jonson , worthy of Fletcher : " I that am glad thy innocence was thy guilt , And wish that all the muses blood was spilt In such a martyrdom , to vex their eyes Do crown thy murder'd poem , & c . " Yet even this pattern of ...
... worthy of Jonson , worthy of Fletcher : " I that am glad thy innocence was thy guilt , And wish that all the muses blood was spilt In such a martyrdom , to vex their eyes Do crown thy murder'd poem , & c . " Yet even this pattern of ...
Page xlvii
... worthy bishop of Bangor not only cleared his beloved poet from such unjust aspersions , but shewed that he could answer slander , sneer and obliquy , with decency , candour , and good manners . Happy had it been for the learned world ...
... worthy bishop of Bangor not only cleared his beloved poet from such unjust aspersions , but shewed that he could answer slander , sneer and obliquy , with decency , candour , and good manners . Happy had it been for the learned world ...
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... worthy Author Mr. JOHN FLETCHER , upon his Faithful Shepherdess . THE wise , and many - headed bench , that sits Upon the life and death of plays , and wits , ( Compos'd of gamester , captain , knight , knight's man , Lady , or Pucelle ...
... worthy Author Mr. JOHN FLETCHER , upon his Faithful Shepherdess . THE wise , and many - headed bench , that sits Upon the life and death of plays , and wits , ( Compos'd of gamester , captain , knight , knight's man , Lady , or Pucelle ...
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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...