 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, whore some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, kept no decorum, in making shepherds speak as well as himself ; that the best pieces of Ronsard were... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short, were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini in his Pastor Fido kept no decorum in making shepherds speak as well as himself. That he told cardinal du Perron (when... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short, were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini in .his Pastor Fido kept no decorum in making shepherds speak as well as himself. That he told cardinal du Perron (when... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 104 pages
...IV. HlS JUDGEMENT OF STRANGER POETS WAS : That he thought not Bartas a Poet, but a Verser, because he wrote not fiction. He cursed Petrarch for redacting...were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who where too i .^ short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, keept not decorum,... | |
 | 1853 - 298 pages
...Petrarch for'redacting verses into Sonnets, which, he said, was like that tyrant's bed where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini in his Pastor Fido kept no decorum, in making shepherds speak as well as himself. That he told Cardinal du Perou (when... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright - English drama - 1853 - 510 pages
...Petrarch for redacting verses into Sonnets, which, he said, was like that tyrant's bed where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini in his Pastor Fido kept no decorum, in making shepherds speak as well as himself. That he told Cardinal du Perou (when... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1868 - 542 pages
...miserable, wretched, sinful, redact to extreme calamity. Bccon't Works, p. 46. (2) To force backwards. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets; which he said were like that Flrrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. Ben Janwn'a Conversation*,... | |
 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 532 pages
...and Courts." BEN'S OPINIONS OF FOREIGN AUTHORS. " 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 tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in... | |
 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 520 pages
...Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, kept not decorum, in making shepherds speak as well as himself could. . . . That Bonnefonius' Vigili1un... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...STRANGER POETS WAS : That he thought not Bartas a Poet, but a Verser, because he wrote not fiction.6 He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets;...decorum, in making Shepherds speek as well as himself could.7 That Lucan, taken in parts, was good divided : read altogidder, merited not the name of a Poet.... | |
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. 
