The Staple of News, Volumes 28-29H. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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Page vii
... such Besides these two major themes , the play contains . a whole bundle of minor satiric themes : projectors and bubble projects , typified in Cymbal and his news - exchange ; the profane wit which news . Dare put on any visor to ...
... such Besides these two major themes , the play contains . a whole bundle of minor satiric themes : projectors and bubble projects , typified in Cymbal and his news - exchange ; the profane wit which news . Dare put on any visor to ...
Page xxix
... such a play as Jonson could have produced in the days when he was still an apprentice in play - writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A ...
... such a play as Jonson could have produced in the days when he was still an apprentice in play - writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A ...
Page xxx
... such as is carried to so great a height in Thackeray's Esmond , for instance , was , I conceive , altogether unthought - of by the Elizabethan dramatists , who as Gifford remarks of Jonson , " usually bring up their action as closely as ...
... such as is carried to so great a height in Thackeray's Esmond , for instance , was , I conceive , altogether unthought - of by the Elizabethan dramatists , who as Gifford remarks of Jonson , " usually bring up their action as closely as ...
Page xxxii
... such that they could not be accidental . If Fletcher wrote this passage independently , Jonson is indebted to it for a number of the minor details of our play . The whole tenor of the passage , however , is Jonsonian , in manner as well ...
... such that they could not be accidental . If Fletcher wrote this passage independently , Jonson is indebted to it for a number of the minor details of our play . The whole tenor of the passage , however , is Jonsonian , in manner as well ...
Page xxxv
... such work was good . Among the memoranda preserved in the Clifford family we find : ' To Captain Robinson , by my lord's commands , for writing letters of news to his lordship for a half year , five pounds . " Five pounds was then ...
... such work was good . Among the memoranda preserved in the Clifford family we find : ' To Captain Robinson , by my lord's commands , for writing letters of news to his lordship for a half year , five pounds . " Five pounds was then ...
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Page 166 - He the half of life abuses. That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us; Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it, and you all are mounted. 'Tis the true Phoebian liquor, Cheers the brains, makes wit the quicker.
Page 132 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
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Page 215 - At either corner of this west end is, also of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for bell towers : the one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at...