 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 898 Seiten
...ANIPPE, her Maid. ZAHINA, Wife of Bajazeth. EBEA, her Maid. Yirgiua of DaiuascuB.] THE PROLOGUE FKOM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We 11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the »Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 900 Seiten
...PROLOGUE FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay. We '11 iction : we hope in our times Bone will apply pastimes,1 because they Tambnrlaine Threat'ning the world with high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1912 - 516 Seiten
...BAJAZETB. EBEA, her maid. VIRGINS OF DAMASCUS. THE PROLOGUE FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll...war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Tjireateningthe worldjwith high astounding terms,. And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1915 - 652 Seiten
...metre to suit the subject instead of fitting the subject to the metre ; and bade farewell to the " jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, and such conceits as clownage keeps in pay." Fourthly, he gave a unity to the drama, hitherto lacking. Plays before had been formless, a succession... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 238 Seiten
...Crit. Dram., p. 60), also mentions " the royalty of speech meet for tragedy". Marlowe tries to hit it: From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tents of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding... | |
 | 1915 - 370 Seiten
...the dull rhyming verses of his predecessors, to the noble blank verse of Shakespeare. It was a change "From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay." Marlowe intended to give lovers of the drama something new. His was the ambition to depart from the... | |
 | John Clark Jordan - 1915 - 256 Seiten
...prologue may be a challenge to Marlowe, .or it may be an imitation of Marlowe's prologue to Tamburlaine: "From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in play, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war." Passages like Marlowe's and Greene's may, however,... | |
 | Robert Huntington Fletcher - 1916 - 396 Seiten
...will discard the usual buffoonery of the popular stage and will set a new standard of tragic majesty : From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with Ms conquering sword. Tamburlaine himself as Marlowe presents him is a titanic, almost superhuman, figure... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1916 - 534 Seiten
...proclaimed in Marlowe's stirring prologue to "Tamburlaine" acted about the time of Tarleton's death. From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such...Threatening the world with high astounding terms. There was to be an opportunity for tragic and stately action instead of jigs and clownage, and for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 186 Seiten
...which it was the fashion of the better poets to ridicule. Jigging refers to the short, broken lines. " From jigging veins of rhyming mother- wits, And such...in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war — " — Marlowe's Tamburlaine. Cas. I did not think you could have been so angry. 141 Bru. O Cassius,... | |
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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... 
