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... appears from the elegies on his eldest daughter and eldest son ; and also from his anxiety , in later life , to ... appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead , as if it had been cutted with a sword , at which ...
... appears from the elegies on his eldest daughter and eldest son ; and also from his anxiety , in later life , to ... appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead , as if it had been cutted with a sword , at which ...
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... appear that the playwright's occupation was ever much to Jonson's taste , for when he had aban- doned writing for the stage in 1616 , only hard necessity forced him to resume it at a later date . He told Drum- mond ' that the half of ...
... appear that the playwright's occupation was ever much to Jonson's taste , for when he had aban- doned writing for the stage in 1616 , only hard necessity forced him to resume it at a later date . He told Drum- mond ' that the half of ...
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John Addington Symonds. is somewhat at variance with this statement . Spencer there appears to have been in God's and the Queen's peace , ' and Jonson's mortal attack upon him takes the semblance of an unprovoked or unsolicited encounter ...
John Addington Symonds. is somewhat at variance with this statement . Spencer there appears to have been in God's and the Queen's peace , ' and Jonson's mortal attack upon him takes the semblance of an unprovoked or unsolicited encounter ...
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... appear . But no one who has entered into intelligent sympathy with his character will believe that he was swayed by any of those worldly motives which may have had their weight with Dryden in his changes of faith . Drummond relates a ...
... appear . But no one who has entered into intelligent sympathy with his character will believe that he was swayed by any of those worldly motives which may have had their weight with Dryden in his changes of faith . Drummond relates a ...
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... appear that he meant in the passage I have just quoted to pay the highest tribute to Shakespeare as a man . And could any poet say more of a brother poet's genius than is expressed in those apostrophes , the most impassioned Jonson ever ...
... appear that he meant in the passage I have just quoted to pay the highest tribute to Shakespeare as a man . And could any poet say more of a brother poet's genius than is expressed in those apostrophes , the most impassioned Jonson ever ...
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Page 152 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 138 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 27 - So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 53 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Page 25 - 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 : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 162 - He 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 148 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair ; Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Page 136 - Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears : Yet slower, yet ; O faintly, gentle springs : List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours...
Page 45 - 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: in place of which, I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.
Page 105 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...