Ben JonsonMacmillan, 1919 - 310 pàgines Series statement at head of title Includes index and bibliographical references. |
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Pàgina 267 - 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...
Pàgina 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 Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 193 - 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 198 - I suffered it to go abroad, I departed with my right: and now, so secure an interpreter I am of my chance, that neither praise nor dispraise shall affect me.
Pàgina 216 - YAH, in which there were workes of divers nature, and matter congested; as the multitude call Timber-trees, promiscuously growing, a Wood, or Forrest : so am I bold to entitle these lesser Poems, of later growth, by this of Under-wood, out of the Analogic they hold to the Forrest, in my former booke, and no otherwise.