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... known that Dekker was writing Satiromastix . Of the characterization of Hedon and Anaides in Cynthia's Revels 3. 2 , he says confi- dently ( ibid . 80 ) : ' Dekker quotes these lines in Satiromastix as if they referred to Crispinus ...
... known that Dekker was writing Satiromastix . Of the characterization of Hedon and Anaides in Cynthia's Revels 3. 2 , he says confi- dently ( ibid . 80 ) : ' Dekker quotes these lines in Satiromastix as if they referred to Crispinus ...
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... known to require characteriza- tion here . Minos . Minos was , of course , the name of the famous son of Zeus and Europa , who ruled in Crete , and after death became one of the judges in Hades . This character is probably not a satire ...
... known to require characteriza- tion here . Minos . Minos was , of course , the name of the famous son of Zeus and Europa , who ruled in Crete , and after death became one of the judges in Hades . This character is probably not a satire ...
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... older and can never have known him well . In Poetaster , Ovid is introduced as a poet obliged by his father to study law ( I. 1 ) ; he has written a tragedy called Medea , that is ' comming foorth for the Introduction lxix.
... older and can never have known him well . In Poetaster , Ovid is introduced as a poet obliged by his father to study law ( I. 1 ) ; he has written a tragedy called Medea , that is ' comming foorth for the Introduction lxix.
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... known at court . Most of his poetry was written at this period . About Christmas , 1600 , the young poet secretly married Anne More , the sixteen- year - old daughter of Sir George More , and niece of Eliza- beth , second wife of the ...
... known at court . Most of his poetry was written at this period . About Christmas , 1600 , the young poet secretly married Anne More , the sixteen- year - old daughter of Sir George More , and niece of Eliza- beth , second wife of the ...
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... known that the elder Marston was disappointed in that his second son preferred poetry to law ; but it is quite unlikely that he ever heard of the expressions of regret in the father's will.1 The audience , moreover , cannot be supposed ...
... known that the elder Marston was disappointed in that his second son preferred poetry to law ; but it is quite unlikely that he ever heard of the expressions of regret in the father's will.1 The audience , moreover , cannot be supposed ...
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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.