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... affectation of the age , 21 5-15 . Of poets , 21 16--23 31 . Preposterous nature of current opinion , 21 16-22 2 ; worthlessness of contemporary estimates of literature , 22 2-18 . Poetry a cruel mistress , 22 19. Those poets have ...
... affectation of the age , 21 5-15 . Of poets , 21 16--23 31 . Preposterous nature of current opinion , 21 16-22 2 ; worthlessness of contemporary estimates of literature , 22 2-18 . Poetry a cruel mistress , 22 19. Those poets have ...
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... than to speak imperfectly . The ears are excused , the understanding is not . And in things unknown to a man , not to give his opinion , lest by 20 30 the affectation of knowing too much he lose the credit DISCOVERIES . t 51.
... than to speak imperfectly . The ears are excused , the understanding is not . And in things unknown to a man , not to give his opinion , lest by 20 30 the affectation of knowing too much he lose the credit DISCOVERIES . t 51.
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Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter Ben Jonson Felix Emmanuel Schelling. the affectation of knowing too much he lose the credit he hath by speaking or knowing the wrong way what he utters . Nor seek to get his patron's favor by ...
Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter Ben Jonson Felix Emmanuel Schelling. the affectation of knowing too much he lose the credit he hath by speaking or knowing the wrong way what he utters . Nor seek to get his patron's favor by ...
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... affectation , which is childish . But why do men depart at all from the right and natural ways of speaking ? Sometimes for necessity , when we are driven , or think it fitter , to speak that in obscure words , or by circumstance , which ...
... affectation , which is childish . But why do men depart at all from the right and natural ways of speaking ? Sometimes for necessity , when we are driven , or think it fitter , to speak that in obscure words , or by circumstance , which ...
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... affectation of praise , but calmly study the separa- 30 tion of opinions , find the errors have intervened , awake antiquity , call former times into question ; but make no parties with the present , nor follow any fierce undertakers ...
... affectation of praise , but calmly study the separa- 30 tion of opinions , find the errors have intervened , awake antiquity , call former times into question ; but make no parties with the present , nor follow any fierce undertakers ...
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Page 23 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 54 - He must first think and excogitate his matter ; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing, and ranking both matter, and words, that the composition be comely ; and to do this with diligence, and often.
Page 145 - I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or limned book; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter?
Page 106 - So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Page 31 - ... him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.* Neither could I condole* in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident* could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.
Page 23 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 111 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 147 - As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 115 - That though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind.
Page 31 - But his learned and able, though unfortunate, successor is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared, or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.