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... once in my thoughts to have printed Mr. Flet- cher's works by themselves , because single and alone he would make a just volume ; but since never parted while they lived , I conceived it not equitable to separate their ashes . It ...
... once in my thoughts to have printed Mr. Flet- cher's works by themselves , because single and alone he would make a just volume ; but since never parted while they lived , I conceived it not equitable to separate their ashes . It ...
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... once by only an occasional conformity to our authors ethical and political principles . They held passive obedience and non - resistance to princes an indispensable duty ; a doctrine which Queen Elizabeth's goodness made her subjects ...
... once by only an occasional conformity to our authors ethical and political principles . They held passive obedience and non - resistance to princes an indispensable duty ; a doctrine which Queen Elizabeth's goodness made her subjects ...
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... once to such maturity , as she did in Spenser , Shakespeare , Beaumont , Fletcher , Jon- son and Massenger ? 2. What spirit is it that has animated the frozen foggy genius of Britain into a nobler and fiercer flame of poetry than was ...
... once to such maturity , as she did in Spenser , Shakespeare , Beaumont , Fletcher , Jon- son and Massenger ? 2. What spirit is it that has animated the frozen foggy genius of Britain into a nobler and fiercer flame of poetry than was ...
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... once , improv'd and marr'd Our sport in plays , by rend'ring it too hard . So when a sort of lusty shepherds throw The bar by turns , and none the rest outgo So far , but that the best are measuring casts , Their emulation and their ...
... once , improv'd and marr'd Our sport in plays , by rend'ring it too hard . So when a sort of lusty shepherds throw The bar by turns , and none the rest outgo So far , but that the best are measuring casts , Their emulation and their ...
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... once , now our sight . Three - and - four - fold - blest poet , who the lives Of poets , and of theatres , survives ! A groom , or ostler of some wit , may bring His Pegasus to the Castalian spring ; Boast , he a race o'er the ...
... once , now our sight . Three - and - four - fold - blest poet , who the lives Of poets , and of theatres , survives ! A groom , or ostler of some wit , may bring His Pegasus to the Castalian spring ; Boast , he a race o'er the ...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2 Ben Jonson,John Fletcher,Francis Beaumont Visualização completa - 1811 |
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Página 381 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página lxxxix - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página xxvii - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Página xcii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página xlii - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Página x - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Página xlix - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página xxv - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Página x - Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.
Página 357 - Lowly do I bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits ; and but lend Belief to that the Satyr tells, Fairer by the famous wells To this present day ne'er grew, Never better, nor more true. Here be grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrels...