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... CALLED HIS , HAVE WITH MINE OWN HAND , TO SATISFY HIS REQUEST , WRITTEN THIS IMPERFECT SONG . " Jonson reached London in April ; and , on the 10th of May , addressed the following letter to Drum- mond . " To my worthy , honoured and ...
... CALLED HIS , HAVE WITH MINE OWN HAND , TO SATISFY HIS REQUEST , WRITTEN THIS IMPERFECT SONG . " Jonson reached London in April ; and , on the 10th of May , addressed the following letter to Drum- mond . " To my worthy , honoured and ...
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... called Bartholmewe faire , xljs . vjd . ' " - P . C. See also the " Revels Accounts " ( printed by the Shakespeare Society ) , by which we find that , on the 11th June , 1615 , Nathaniel Field received £ 10 for Bartholo- mew Fair ...
... called Bartholmewe faire , xljs . vjd . ' " - P . C. See also the " Revels Accounts " ( printed by the Shakespeare Society ) , by which we find that , on the 11th June , 1615 , Nathaniel Field received £ 10 for Bartholo- mew Fair ...
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... called Markham " a base fellow . " - P . C. j When the enmity between Ben Jonson and Sir Thomas Overbury be- gan is nowhere stated ; probably anterior to February , 1602-3 , under which date we meet with the following in Manningham's ...
... called Markham " a base fellow . " - P . C. j When the enmity between Ben Jonson and Sir Thomas Overbury be- gan is nowhere stated ; probably anterior to February , 1602-3 , under which date we meet with the following in Manningham's ...
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... called unto minde That it was Christmasse Day . m Beaumont died in the beginning of March , 1616 , and was buried on the ninth of that month in Westminster Abbey . Jonson's lines , " How I do love thee , Beaumont , and thy Muse ...
... called unto minde That it was Christmasse Day . m Beaumont died in the beginning of March , 1616 , and was buried on the ninth of that month in Westminster Abbey . Jonson's lines , " How I do love thee , Beaumont , and thy Muse ...
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... called " bricklayer . " The date of this event is 1598 , and Henslowe's letter giving an account of it , is of the 26th of September , in that year . This is , probably , what Jonson refers to when he says , " to render myself grateful ...
... called " bricklayer . " The date of this event is 1598 , and Henslowe's letter giving an account of it , is of the 26th of September , in that year . This is , probably , what Jonson refers to when he says , " to render myself grateful ...
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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...