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Page xxxiii
I reuerence and adore that iuft decree : But if they shall be sharp , yet modest
rimes That spare mens persons , and but taxe their crimes , Such , shall in open
court , find currant passe ; Were CAESAR iudge , and with the makers grace .
I reuerence and adore that iuft decree : But if they shall be sharp , yet modest
rimes That spare mens persons , and but taxe their crimes , Such , shall in open
court , find currant passe ; Were CAESAR iudge , and with the makers grace .
Page xliv
... enter and upbraid Horace for his calumnious exposure of the weaknesses of
his friends and for his attacks on Court , City , Soldiers , Lawyers , and Players —
the allusions being directly to Poetaster . Warning him that his bitter riddling may
...
... enter and upbraid Horace for his calumnious exposure of the weaknesses of
his friends and for his attacks on Court , City , Soldiers , Lawyers , and Players —
the allusions being directly to Poetaster . Warning him that his bitter riddling may
...
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9 of the first book is not uncomplimentary to the court singer ; but Sat. 10 sneers
at Hermogenes ' ignorance of the ancient poets . Maecenas , Virgil , even
Octavius , have approved the satires of Horace , but Hermogenes has carped at
them ...
9 of the first book is not uncomplimentary to the court singer ; but Sat. 10 sneers
at Hermogenes ' ignorance of the ancient poets . Maecenas , Virgil , even
Octavius , have approved the satires of Horace , but Hermogenes has carped at
them ...
Page lvi
As for John Daniel , he can hardly , according to the D.N.B. account , have been
sufficiently prominent in the summer of 1601 , when Poetaster was written , to
figure as the principal court - musician , and the only master of music in Rome ( or
...
As for John Daniel , he can hardly , according to the D.N.B. account , have been
sufficiently prominent in the summer of 1601 , when Poetaster was written , to
figure as the principal court - musician , and the only master of music in Rome ( or
...
Page lxx
5 ) , and is exiled from court by the emperor for ' soothing ' Julia in her follies ( 4. 6
. 53-8 ) . He appears solus in 4. 8 , and with Julia in 4. 9 , but we get no further
light on his character or history ; at the end of act 4 he disappears from the drama
...
5 ) , and is exiled from court by the emperor for ' soothing ' Julia in her follies ( 4. 6
. 53-8 ) . He appears solus in 4. 8 , and with Julia in 4. 9 , but we get no further
light on his character or history ; at the end of act 4 he disappears from the drama
...
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Page xc - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.
Page cii - Lastly, 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...
Page 223 - Jonson) 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 216 - ... it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language, and humour, also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he 'knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
Page xliii - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to venerie.
Page 281 - A New Study of his Life and Writings. CAROLINE LOUISA WHITE, Ph.D. $1.50. III. The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and Glossary. BERTHA ELLEN LOVEWELL, Ph.D. $1.00. IV. Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice. MARGARET SHERWOOD, Ph.D.
Page 236 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens that they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.
Page xxxv - ... either to gaine or keep. Vindicative, but if he be well answered, at himself, for any religion as being versed in both, interpreteth best sayings and deeds often to the worst: oppressed with fantasie, which hath ever mastered his reason, a generall disease in many poets. his inventions are smooth and easie, but above all he excelleth in a translation.
Page xc - It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking.
Page 160 - Roger, thou know'st the length of my foot; as it is none of the biggest, so I thank God, it is handsome enough; prithee, let me have a pair of shoes made, cork, good Roger, wooden heel too.
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| Title | Poetaster, Issues 27-28 Microbook library of English literature Poetaster, Herbert Samuel Mallory Poetaster, Ben Jonson Issue 27 of Yale studies in English |
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| Editor | Herbert Samuel Mallory |
| Contributor | Herbert Samuel Mallory |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1905 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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