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... James's visit to his native kingdom in May 1617 . Jonson , when he commenced his journey , was well advanced in life , having reached the forty - fifth year of his age . He was at the time in special favour at the English court ; and ...
... James's visit to his native kingdom in May 1617 . Jonson , when he commenced his journey , was well advanced in life , having reached the forty - fifth year of his age . He was at the time in special favour at the English court ; and ...
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... James Scot ; and what else you can procure for me with all speed ; Especially I make it my request , that you will enquire for me whether the Students method at St. Andrews be the same with that at Edinburgh , and so to assure me , or ...
... James Scot ; and what else you can procure for me with all speed ; Especially I make it my request , that you will enquire for me whether the Students method at St. Andrews be the same with that at Edinburgh , and so to assure me , or ...
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... James the First . He was an elegant poet , and died in 1638. He lies interred in the south aisle of the choir in Westminster Abbey . See Smith's Iconographia Scotica , and the Bannatyne Miscellany , vol . i . , pp . 299 to 324 . in- h ...
... James the First . He was an elegant poet , and died in 1638. He lies interred in the south aisle of the choir in Westminster Abbey . See Smith's Iconographia Scotica , and the Bannatyne Miscellany , vol . i . , pp . 299 to 324 . in- h ...
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... James VI . , dated St. Andrews , July 2 , 1583 ( in the King's own hand ) : " Madame I haue staied maister Spenser upon the lettr quhilk is uritten uith my auin hand , quhilk sall be readie uithin tua daies . " ( MS . Cotton . Calig ...
... James VI . , dated St. Andrews , July 2 , 1583 ( in the King's own hand ) : " Madame I haue staied maister Spenser upon the lettr quhilk is uritten uith my auin hand , quhilk sall be readie uithin tua daies . " ( MS . Cotton . Calig ...
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... James , and that Marston died June 25 , 1634. ( Ben Jonson , vol . i . , p . cxxiii . , note . ) t See before , p . 3 , note j . In justice to the author , Mr. Gifford's note on this passage should be here added : " This ( he says ) is ...
... James , and that Marston died June 25 , 1634. ( Ben Jonson , vol . i . , p . cxxiii . , note . ) t See before , p . 3 , note j . In justice to the author , Mr. Gifford's note on this passage should be here added : " This ( he says ) is ...
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Page 13 - That Southwell was hanged ; yet so he had written that piece of his, the Burning Babe, he would have been content to destroy many of his.
Page 26 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 13 - The burning babe As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear; Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed. Alas...
Page 14 - My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel justice layeth on, and mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls: For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good, So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.
Page 24 - Who never drew a sword ; Here lies a noble courtier, Who never kept his word ; Here lies the Earle of Leister, Who govern'd the estates, Whom the earth could never living love, And the just Heaven now hates.
Page xxiv - 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 ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 4 - That he thought not Bartas a Poet, but a Verser, because he wrote not fiction. " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who where too short were racked, others too long cut short.
Page 23 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward 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. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Page 19 - When the King came in England at that tyme the pest was in London, he being in the country at Sir Robert Cotton's house with old Cambden, he saw in a vision his eldest...
Page 48 - ... of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) . A dissembler of ill...