The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Band 5G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... addition to it , that the name of this great poet might be cited for better purposes than the gratification of wanton malice , or the sport of incorrigible folly . From thence shoot the Bridge , child , to the 12 THE DEVIL IS AN ASS .
... addition to it , that the name of this great poet might be cited for better purposes than the gratification of wanton malice , or the sport of incorrigible folly . From thence shoot the Bridge , child , to the 12 THE DEVIL IS AN ASS .
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... better to you than I. And ' tis a knowledge wherein fools may be As wise as a court - parliament . Nor come I With any prejudice or doubt , that you Should , to the notice of your own worth , need Least revelation . She's a simple woman ...
... better to you than I. And ' tis a knowledge wherein fools may be As wise as a court - parliament . Nor come I With any prejudice or doubt , that you Should , to the notice of your own worth , need Least revelation . She's a simple woman ...
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... better turning it to money , you What may not you , sir , purchase with that wealth ? Say you should part with two of your millions , To be the thing you would , who would not do't ? As I protest I will , out of my dividend , Lay for ...
... better turning it to money , you What may not you , sir , purchase with that wealth ? Say you should part with two of your millions , To be the thing you would , who would not do't ? As I protest I will , out of my dividend , Lay for ...
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... better Vice , than here by nature And art they're owners of ? Hell never own me , But I am taken ! the fine tract of it Pulls me along ! to hear men such professors Grown in our subtlest sciences ! My first act , now , Shall be to make ...
... better Vice , than here by nature And art they're owners of ? Hell never own me , But I am taken ! the fine tract of it Pulls me along ! to hear men such professors Grown in our subtlest sciences ! My first act , now , Shall be to make ...
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... better company , 7 And garters which are lost if she can shew them . ] So the old copies read : but the sense seems to require the addition of not , which might be dropt at the press . " Garters of fourscore pound a pair , " are ...
... better company , 7 And garters which are lost if she can shew them . ] So the old copies read : but the sense seems to require the addition of not , which might be dropt at the press . " Garters of fourscore pound a pair , " are ...
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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 Julius Cæsar keep kiss Lady F lady Frampul lady's ladyship Lick Lickfinger Light Heart Lollard Lord 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 thou hast Trun Trundle trust twill Tyburn unto valour WHAL Whalley What's wife wild company Wittipol word
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Seite 162 - 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 66 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she! From...
Seite 65 - 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 440 - Run on and rage, sweat, censure, and condemn ; They were not made for thee, less thou for them. Say that thou pour'st them wheat, And they will acorns eat ; 'Twere simple fury still thyself to waste On such as have no taste...
Seite 135 - 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 350 - 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 66 - Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier ? Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! n.
Seite 197 - Mirth leads us to suppose that it was a very common termination of the adventures of the Vice for him to be carried off to hell on the back of the devil : ' he would carry away the Vice on his back, quick to hell, in every play where he came.
Seite 409 - WHAI™ Lov. A meditation, Or rather a vision, madam, and of beauty, Our former subject. Lady F. Pray you let us hear it, Lov. // 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 ! Lady F.
Seite 58 - Thirdly, plays have made the ignorant more apprehensive,* taught the unlearned the knowledge of many famous histories, instructed such as cannot read in the discovery* of all our English chronicles; and what man have you now of that weak capacity that cannot discourse of any notable thing recorded even from William the Conqueror, nay, from the landing of Brute, until this day...