 | Roger Fowler - 1987 - 276 pagina’s
...(melancholic). These are used by Ben Jonson to construct an idea of character obsession. A bumour may 'so possess a man, that it doth draw / All his affects, his spirits and his power, 1n their confluctions, all to run one way' (Prologue to Every Man Out of His Humour, 1600).... | |
 | Shearer West - 1991 - 214 pagina’s
...on comedy could nevertheless speak of the excessive traits only, following Ben Jonson's conception: When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way; This may be truly said to be a humour." The humours were used most... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pagina’s
...fluids and their associated humors: It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man that it doth draw All his affects,16 his spirit and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 pagina’s
...metaphorically, ascribing to a "humour" any case "when some one peculiar quality / Doth so possesse a man, that it doth draw / All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, / In their confluctions, all to runne one way."32 The subject of comedy should thus be a dominant, distorting... | |
 | Scott Cutler Shershow - 1995 - 282 pagina’s
...Métaphore, apply it selfe Unto the general! disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possesse a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to runne one way. (Ind. 103-8) There is something distincdy puppetlike about this... | |
 | Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes - 1996 - 316 pagina’s
...name of humours. Now thus far / It may, by metaphor, apply itself / Unto the general disposition: / As when some one peculiar quality / Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw / All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, / In their confluctions, all to run one way, / This may be truly... | |
 | N. K. Oo - 1995 - 100 pagina’s
...types in comedy was Ben Jonson. He called people who are characters humors, and defined them thus: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man,...his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, That may be truly said to be Humour. We would see such a person and... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2011 - 224 pagina’s
...his "Induction" to Everyman and His Humour, which was written in 1599 (Levin, 1987, 183), as follows: Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that...his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluctions, all to run one way. This notion of personality types has played an important role in... | |
 | Simon Hillson - 1996 - 762 pagina’s
...blood" flowing in the human body, determining personal temperament, "by Metaphor" the term may apply "when some one peculiar quality / Doth so possess...his affects, his spirits, and his powers / In their confluctions, all to run one way" (Every Man Out, Opening Grex, lines 99-108). (In modern terms humours... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1996 - 452 pagina’s
...medieval medical analysis of the personality to the 'humours' of practical stage characterization: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way; This may be truly said to be a humour. (1O5-9) A show-stopper in... | |
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As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. 
