The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Band 5G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... thing , And may have heard he's worn in a thumb - ring The Devil is an Ass . ] This is said by the prologue pointing to the title of the play , which , as was then the custom , was painted in large letters , and placed in some ...
... thing , And may have heard he's worn in a thumb - ring The Devil is an Ass . ] This is said by the prologue pointing to the title of the play , which , as was then the custom , was painted in large letters , and placed in some ...
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... thing , that so admir'st ; Art thou the spirit thou seem'st ? so poor , to choose , This for a Vice , to advance the cause of hell , Now , as vice stands this present year ? Remember What number it is , six hundred and sixteen . Had it ...
... thing , that so admir'st ; Art thou the spirit thou seem'st ? so poor , to choose , This for a Vice , to advance the cause of hell , Now , as vice stands this present year ? Remember What number it is , six hundred and sixteen . Had it ...
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... things That are received now upon earth , for Vices ; Stranger and newer : and changed every hour . They ride them like their horses , off their legs , And here they come to hell , whole legions of them , Every week tired . We still ...
... things That are received now upon earth , for Vices ; Stranger and newer : and changed every hour . They ride them like their horses , off their legs , And here they come to hell , whole legions of them , Every week tired . We still ...
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... thing I fear , If I begin not now to think , the painters Have only made him : ' slight , he would be seen One time or other else ; he would not let An ancient gentleman , of [ as ] good a house As most are now in England , the ...
... thing I fear , If I begin not now to think , the painters Have only made him : ' slight , he would be seen One time or other else ; he would not let An ancient gentleman , of [ as ] good a house As most are now in England , the ...
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... things be reconciled . ' Please you to let my service be of use to you , sir . Fitz . Service ! ' fore hell , my heart was at my mouth , ' Till I had view'd his shoes well : for those roses Were big enough to hide a cloven foot ...
... things be reconciled . ' Please you to let my service be of use to you , sir . Fitz . Service ! ' fore hell , my heart was at my mouth , ' Till I had view'd his shoes well : for those roses Were big enough to hide a cloven foot ...
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allusion Aristophanes Beaumont and Fletcher beggar BEN JONSON brave Broker call'd Canter cloke court cuckold devil doth Eith Eitherside Enter Exeunt Exit Fitz Fitzdottrel gentleman Gilthead give gossip grace hath hear honour Host Jonson keep kiss Lady F lady Frampul lady's ladyship Lick Lickfinger Light Heart Lollard Lord Lord L Love's Pilgrimage Lovel madam Madrigal master Meer MEERCRAFT Mirth mistress mistress Band never noble Nurse on't Peck Pecunia PENNY BOY Pennyboy Pick Picklock piece Pierce play Plutarchus poet pray princess Prue rogue SCENE servant Shakspeare shew Shun speak Steevens sweet tell thee there's thing Trun Trundle trust twill Tyburn unto valour WHAL Whalley What's wife wild company Wittipol word
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Seite 163 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Seite 69 - Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt o...
Seite 351 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness?
Seite 136 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
Seite 68 - Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth. Do but look on her hair, it is bright As Love's star when it riseth. Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her.
Seite 41 - I'll never want her! Coin her out of cobwebs, Dust, but I'll have her! raise wool upon egg-shells, Sir, and make grass grow out of marrow-bones, To make her come!
Seite 345 - O but I loved the more ; and she might read it Best in my silence, had she been Host. — as melancholic As you are. Pray you, why would you stand mute, sir ? Lov. O, thereon hangs a history, mine host. Did you ever know or hear...
Seite 11 - Here, there, and every where, as the cat is with the mice; True Vetus Iniquitas. Lack'st thou cards, friend, or dice? I will teach thee [to] cheat, child, to cog, lie and swagger, And ever and anon to be drawing forth thy dagger: To swear by Gogs-nowns, like a lusty Juventus, In a cloak to thy heel, and a hat like a pent-house.
Seite 267 - ... Rears bulwark pies, and for his outer works, He raiseth ramparts of immortal crust; And teacheth all the tactics, at one dinner: What ranks, what files, to put his dishes in; The whole art military. Then he knows The influence of the stars upon his meats, And all their seasons, tempers, qualities, And so to fit his relishes and sauces. He has nature in a pot, 'bove all the chymists, Or airy brethren of the Rosie-cross. He is an architect, an engineer, A soldier, a physician, a philosopher, A...
Seite 410 - It was a beauty that I saw So pure, so perfect, as the frame Of all the universe was lame, To that one figure, could I draw, Or give least line of it a law ! " A skein of silk without a knot, A fair march made without a halt, A curious form without a fault, A printed book without a blot, All beauty, and without a spot I