From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with... A First View of English Literature - Page 99by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
| Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 354 pages
...have, in deference to the received opinion, admitted it into the present collection. THE PROLOGUE. FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : Threatening the world with high astounding... | |
| John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 pages
...expressions Marlow uses in his short prologue, to the first part of Tamburlaine the Great, are important. ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, ' And such...clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening the world with high astounding... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...high pretensions was come to rescue the stage from the dominion of feebleness and buffoonery : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threat'ning... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-U'tis, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-teits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in... | |
| Ludwig Tieck - 1848 - 418 pages
...SEamerlan (ber nify »tel langer alé jener ijî, über »е1феп Camlet fpottet) fagt 2»arlott:*) From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...conceits as clownage keeps in pay, - We'll lead you etc. *) 3Bt£ 2Rorlo№ jiemlicfy lange bei ben Gnglânfcetn faft oer= gejfen »ar, fo fdjeint ее,... | |
| Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1850 - 448 pages
...Compare too the Prologue to the First Part of Tamburlaine; " From jigging reins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. It must be remembered that, before the appearance of Tamburlaine, writers for the... | |
| Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff - 1858 - 672 pages
...Unb jollt il)m Seifall, roenn ее (аиф gefällt. From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, • And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding... | |
| Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 476 pages
...too the Prologue to the First Part of Tamburlaine ; ' * From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. — Mr. Collier informs us. that, before the appearance of Tamburlaine, writers for... | |
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