Jonson and Drummond, Their Conversations: A Few Remarks on an 18th Century ForgeryB. Blackwell, 1925 - 80 pagina's |
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Alchemist Anthony Wood antiquary appears based on Jonson's Beaumont Ben Jonson Bodleian books read borrowed Camden Chapman Conversations Countess of Bedford Countess of Rutland Countess of Suffolk Court Criticus Donne Donne's poem doubt Drum Drummond folio Earl Eastward Hoe Edinburgh edition editors Epistle Essex Fletcher Folio reads forger Gifford Grierson hath Hawthornden MSS Humour Impresa Inigo Jones inserted Ionsoniana John Roe Jonson and Drummond Jonson folio Jonson wrote Jonson's Epigram Jonson's words King Lady Wroth letter lished literary London Lord Marston Masque of Blackness Masque of Queens mond notice original Overbury passage Patterson Pennyles Pilgrimage play poet Poetaster preface prison published quarto quoted read by Drummond reader remark Scot Sejanus Selden Shakespeare shew Sibbald Sidney Silent Woman Sir Robert Somerset's Lady statement Suffolk suggested tell Drummond translated Underwoods verses Volpone walked to Scotland William Drummond writes written wrott
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Pagina 28 - I am here, my most honoured lord, unexamined and unheard, committed to a vile prison, and with me a gentleman, (whose name may, perhaps, have come to your lordship) one Mr. George Chapman, a learned and honest man.
Pagina 49 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 28 - I protest to your honour, and call God to testimony, (since my first error which, yet, is punished in me more with my shame than it was then with my bondage), I have so attempered my style, that I have given no cause to any good man of grief...
Pagina 15 - I hope they shall neither burden nor weary such a Friendship, whose commands to me I will ever interpret a pleasure. News we have none here, but what is making against the Queen's Funeral, whereof I have somewhat in hand, which shall look upon you with the next. Salute the beloved Fentons, the Nisbets, the Scots, the Levingstons, and all the honest and honoured names with you ; especially Mr.
Pagina 59 - I myself could, in my youth, have repeated all that ever I had made, and so continued till I was past forty ; since, it is much decayed iu me. Yet I can repeat whole books that I have read, and poems of some selected friends, which I have liked to charge my memory with.
Pagina 26 - ... something against the Scots, in a play Eastward Hoe, and voluntarily imprissonned himself with Chapman and Marston, who had written it amongst them. The report was, that they should then [have] had their ears cut and noses. After their delivery, he banqueted all his friends...
Pagina 20 - To the Honouring Respect Born To the Friendship contracted with The Right Virtuous and Learned Mr. William Drummond, And the Perpetuating the Same by all offices of Love Hereafter, I Benjamin Jonson, Whom he hath honoured with the leave to be called His, Have with mine own Hand, to satisfy his Request, Written this Imperfect Song...
Pagina 51 - But here's an heresy of late let fall, That mirth by no means fits a pastoral. Such say so, who can make none, he presumes; Else there's no scene more properly assumes The sock.
Pagina 41 - ... of dramatic poems, with preservation of any popular delight. But of this I shall take more seasonable cause to speak, in my observations upon Horace his Art of Poetry, which, with the text translated, I intend shortly to publish.
Pagina 66 - That Donne's Anniversary was profane and full of blasphemies; that he told Mr. Donne, if it had been written of the Virgin Mary it had been something; to which he answered that he described the Idea of a Woman and not as she was.