Tragedy

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Houghton Mifflin, 1908 - 390 Seiten
 

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Seite 101 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Seite 66 - ... murders, committed by and through him, and last of all, his odious death by God's justice appointed.
Seite 90 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Seite 118 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey : And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of lacke Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first claime vnto the Crowne.
Seite 72 - The Englishman in this quallitie is most vaine, indiscreete, and out of order: he fyrst groundes his worke on impossibilities; then in three howers ronnes he throwe the worlde, marryes, gets Children, makes Children men, men to conquer kingdomes, murder Monsters, and bringeth Gods from Heaven, and fetcheth Divels from Hel.
Seite 112 - Gentlemen, we hope you'll pardon this naked tragedy, Wherein no filed points are foisted in To make it gracious to the ear or eye; For simple truth is gracious enough, And needs no other points of glosing stuff.
Seite 202 - Heywood, wishing what I write may be read by their light ; protesting that, in the strength of mine own judgment, I know them so worthy, that though I rest silent in my own work, yet to most of theirs I dare (without flattery) fix that of Martial : ' Non norunt haec monumenta mori.
Seite 202 - Detraction is the sworne friend to ignorance. For mine owne part, I have ever truly cherisht my good opinion of other mens worthy Labours; especially of that full and haightned stile of Maister Chapman, the labor...
Seite 72 - And doe they not knowe, that a Tragedie is tied to the lawes of Poesie, and not of Historic...
Seite 154 - And nuzzled twixt the breasts of happiness,) Who winks, and shuts his apprehension up From common sense of what men were, and are, Who would not know what men must be ; let such Hurry amain from our...

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