Ben JonsonMacmillan, 1926 - 310 pagina's Series statement at head of title Includes index and bibliographical references. |
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Pagina 277 - Ah BEN! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Pagina 193 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Pagina 28 - I shall raise the despised head of poetry again, and stripping her out of those rotten and base rags wherewith the times have adulterated her form, restore her to her primitive habit, feature, and majesty, and render her worthy to be embraced and kist of all the great and master-spirits of our world.
Pagina 236 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the muses...
Pagina 202 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the Spring by following her ; For other print her airy steps ne'er left.
Pagina 193 - In the meantime, if in truth of argument, dignity of persons, gravity and height of elocution, fulness and frequency of sentence, I have discharged the other offices of a tragic writer, let not the absence of these forms be imputed to me, wherein I shall give you occasion hereafter, and without my boast, to think I could better prescribe, than omit the due use for want of a convenient knowledge.
Pagina 255 - I am not of that opinion to conclude a poet's liberty within the narrow limits of laws, which either the grammarians, or philosophers prescribe. For, before they found out those laws, there were many excellent poets, that fulfilled them. Amongst whom none more perfect than Sophocles, who lived a little before Aristotle.
Pagina 207 - There, in the stocks of trees, white fays do dwell, And span-long elves that dance about a pool, With each a little changeling in their arms : The airy spirits play with falling stars. And mount the sphere of fire...
Pagina 91 - Now that it should be one and entire. One is considerable two ways: either as it is only separate and by itself; or as, being composed of many parts, it begins to be one as those parts grow or are wrought together. That it should be one the first way, alone and by itself, no man that hath tasted letters ever would say, especially having required before a just magnitude and equal proportion of the parts in themselves; neither of which can possibly...
Pagina 203 - Did not the whole earth sicken when she died ! As if there since did fall one drop of dew, But what was wept for her ! or any stalk Did bear a flower, or any branch a bloom, After her wreath was made ! In faith, in faith, You do not fair to put these things upon me, Which can in no sort be : Earine, Who...