| Christopher Marlowe - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 354 pages
...have, in deference to the received opinion, admitted it into the present collection. THE PROLOGUE. FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : Threatening the world with high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.... | |
| John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...expressions Marlow uses in his short prologue, to the first part of Tamburlaine the Great, are important. ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, ' And such...war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening the world with high astounding terms, ' And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...high pretensions was come to rescue the stage from the dominion of feebleness and buffoonery : — " From 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, Threat'ning... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-U'tis, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in blank-verse.... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-teits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in blank-verse.... | |
| Ludwig Tieck - Drama - 1848 - 418 pages
...SEamerlan (ber nify »tel langer alé jener ijî, über »е1феп Camlet fpottet) fagt 2»arlott:*) From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...conceits as clownage keeps in pay, - We'll lead you etc. *) 3Bt£ 2Rorlo№ jiemlicfy lange bei ben Gnglânfcetn faft oer= gejfen »ar, fo fdjeint ее,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...— " From jiggling veins of rhyming mother wits, As such conceits as clownagc keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threat'ning the world with high astounding terms." * His daring was successful. It is he who is accounted... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...— " From jiggling veins of rhyming mother wits, As such conceits as elownage keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlainc, Threat'ning the world with high astounding terms." * His daring was successful. It is... | |
| Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 448 pages
...Compare too the Prologue to the First Part of Tamburlaine; " From jigging reins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. It must be remembered that, before the appearance of Tamburlaine, writers for the regular theatres... | |
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