The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Band 5G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... whole , such a worthless incumbrance on the page , that the reader will thank me for discarding them altogether . They bear no trace of the poet's hand . 66 This comedy was revived immediately after the Restoration , and , as Downes ...
... whole , such a worthless incumbrance on the page , that the reader will thank me for discarding them altogether . They bear no trace of the poet's hand . 66 This comedy was revived immediately after the Restoration , and , as Downes ...
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... whole legions of them , Every week tired . We still strive to breed , And rear up new ones ; but they do not stand ; When they come there , they turn them on our hands . And it is fear'd they have a stud o ' their own Will put down ...
... whole legions of them , Every week tired . We still strive to breed , And rear up new ones ; but they do not stand ; When they come there , they turn them on our hands . And it is fear'd they have a stud o ' their own Will put down ...
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... whole hoof'd . Pug . Sir , that's a popular error , deceives many : But I am that I tell you . Fitz . What's your name ? Pug . My name is Devil , sir . Fitz . Say'st thou true ? Pug . Indeed , sir . Fitz . ' Slid , there's some omen in ...
... whole hoof'd . Pug . Sir , that's a popular error , deceives many : But I am that I tell you . Fitz . What's your name ? Pug . My name is Devil , sir . Fitz . Say'st thou true ? Pug . Indeed , sir . Fitz . ' Slid , there's some omen in ...
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... whole nights some- times , The devil - given elfin squire , your husband , Doth leave you , quitting here his proper circle , For a much worse , in the walks of Lincoln's - inn , Under the elms , t ' expect the fiend in vain there ...
... whole nights some- times , The devil - given elfin squire , your husband , Doth leave you , quitting here his proper circle , For a much worse , in the walks of Lincoln's - inn , Under the elms , t ' expect the fiend in vain there ...
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... whole of his stock , the act may be placed as a small set - off against some of his drunken frolics . 6 Is not that strange , sir , to make wine of raisins ? ] Whatever it might be in Fitzdottrel's days , it is sufficiently familiar in ...
... whole of his stock , the act may be placed as a small set - off against some of his drunken frolics . 6 Is not that strange , sir , to make wine of raisins ? ] Whatever it might be in Fitzdottrel's days , it is sufficiently familiar in ...
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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...