Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volume 2author, 1817 Intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. |
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... Ben Jonson , I take it to be as you say , that his Life is very defectively and inconsistently told ; but , not having any of his Historians by me , it is impossible for me to say any thing on that head much to your purpose . And I ...
... Ben Jonson , I take it to be as you say , that his Life is very defectively and inconsistently told ; but , not having any of his Historians by me , it is impossible for me to say any thing on that head much to your purpose . And I ...
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... Ben Jonson says , is broke loose from its fellows , and wants to be tied up . And the other lines of Puck may easily be re- duced to seven syllables , this shoots out into ten . I fancy the Poet wrote thus : Near to this kill ...
... Ben Jonson says , is broke loose from its fellows , and wants to be tied up . And the other lines of Puck may easily be re- duced to seven syllables , this shoots out into ten . I fancy the Poet wrote thus : Near to this kill ...
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... Ben Jonson's Staple of News , Act 4 , Sc . 4 . He He bears , In a field Azure , a Sun THEOBALD AND WARBURTON . 233.
... Ben Jonson's Staple of News , Act 4 , Sc . 4 . He He bears , In a field Azure , a Sun THEOBALD AND WARBURTON . 233.
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... Ben Jonson , and Beaumont and Fletcher ( as I shall have occasion to observe ) have frequent girds at passages in our Author ; and I am in doubt whe- ther Beaumont towards the conclusion of the Beg- gar's Bush is not flurting at this ...
... Ben Jonson , and Beaumont and Fletcher ( as I shall have occasion to observe ) have frequent girds at passages in our Author ; and I am in doubt whe- ther Beaumont towards the conclusion of the Beg- gar's Bush is not flurting at this ...
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... Ben Jonson's Staple of News , p . 165 , 8vo . There was no Play without a Fool and a Devil in't . He would carry away the Vice on his back , quick to Hell , & c . III . And afterwards , p . 187 : But here is never a Friend to carry bim ...
... Ben Jonson's Staple of News , p . 165 , 8vo . There was no Play without a Fool and a Devil in't . He would carry away the Vice on his back , quick to Hell , & c . III . And afterwards , p . 187 : But here is never a Friend to carry bim ...
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Page 198 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 382 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? — Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office.
Page 483 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
Page 195 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 652 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 73 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Page 348 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd> Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Page 404 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Page 834 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 717 - What City Swans once sung within the walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days.