A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes • From whence 'tis nourished : The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 301876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1917 - 312 Seiten
...which the last and most confused is a manipulation of one used by Chapman in two signed plays : Oar poesy is as a gum which oozes' From whence 'tis nourished : the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current flies... | |
| William Teignmouth Shore - 1920 - 200 Seiten
...Scene i, the Poet speaks almost prophetically when we consider the trend of modern psychology : — Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished : the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current flies... | |
| William Teignmouth Shore - 1920 - 202 Seiten
...Scene 1, the Poet speaks almost prophetically when we consider the trend of modern psychology : — Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished : the f1re i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 Seiten
...Ariel confined in a pine-tree, and requires an artificial process to let it out. Shakespeare says: Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished; . . . our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current flies Each bound it chafes. 3 * Burke's... | |
| Marguerite Wilkinson - 1925 - 346 Seiten
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord. Poet. A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish 'd; the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself and... | |
| 1928 - 432 Seiten
...poet in Timon of Athens. A painter accosts him: and he answers: ... ,. . ,, , A thing shpt idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished. Poetry appears, then, to be a kind of secretion. But what is it that stimulates its flow? That is something... | |
| 1859 - 796 Seiten
...to the other's recent soliloquy. And now we are going to know them. Poet. A thing slipped idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current flies... | |
| Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 Seiten
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord. Poet: A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd. [1. 1. 19-22] This passage about artistic courtiership, like so much of the play, is brilliantly... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 Seiten
...Jonson's view of Shakespeare as flowing too freely, in need of restraint: A thing slipp'd idlely from me. Our poesy is as a gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd. The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be strook; our gentle flame Provokes itself and... | |
| G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 Seiten
...psychic speed of the passion. The torrent metaphor is exact. Hence the Poet in Timon of Athens says: Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current jties... | |
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