A Critical Examination of the Poetic Genius of Ben JonsonH. Voss, 1857 - 35 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7 - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination...
Pàgina 23 - And say, they were forfeited by providence. Nor shall you need o'er night to eat huge meals, To celebrate your next day's fast the better ; The whilst the brethren and the sisters humbled, Abate the stiffness of the flesh. Nor cast Before your...
Pàgina 8 - Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Pàgina 23 - Nor shall you need o'er night to eat huge meals, To celebrate your next day's fast the better; The whilst the brethren and the sisters humbled, Abate the stiffness of the flesh. Nor cast Before your hungry hearers scrupulous bones; As whether a Christian may hawk or hunt, Or whether matrons of the holy assembly May lay their hair out, or wear doublets, Or have that idol starch about their linen.
Pàgina 10 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pàgina 15 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't : these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages— so they call them— that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
Pàgina 27 - Ay, sir. Why, did you think you had married a statue, or a motion only ? one of the French puppets, with the eyes turned with a wire...
Pàgina 28 - You have married a boy, a gentleman's son, that I have brought up this half year at my great charges, and for this composition, which I have now made with you.
Pàgina 4 - But he knew that such indiscriminate prodigality was, to use his own admirable language, " from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature.
Pàgina 11 - 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...