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... style usual at that time- — a style tourmenté , choked with quotation , twisted in every direction by allusion and conceit , and confusions of English with classical grammar ward , vigorous English of these Discoveries . . . prose ...
... style usual at that time- — a style tourmenté , choked with quotation , twisted in every direction by allusion and conceit , and confusions of English with classical grammar ward , vigorous English of these Discoveries . . . prose ...
Page vii
... Publication and Date of Composition .. Literary Influences . Style .... ANALYSIS DISCOVERIES NOTES ... INDEX OF PROPER NAMES . PAGE ix ix xiv xviii xxi xxvii I 89 163 vii } INTRODUCTION . 1. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF BEN.
... Publication and Date of Composition .. Literary Influences . Style .... ANALYSIS DISCOVERIES NOTES ... INDEX OF PROPER NAMES . PAGE ix ix xiv xviii xxi xxvii I 89 163 vii } INTRODUCTION . 1. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF BEN.
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... wholly Jonson's own ; while the care with which the notes have been penned , and the painstaking attention to matters of style and expression , entitle Jonson here as elsewhere to challenge the first place of his INTRODUCTION . XV.
... wholly Jonson's own ; while the care with which the notes have been penned , and the painstaking attention to matters of style and expression , entitle Jonson here as elsewhere to challenge the first place of his INTRODUCTION . XV.
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... style and poetry . In another place we find traces of Plutarch running through several pages , dipping into the various topics of the Morals , gleaning an anecdote here and there from the Lives , and diverted through similarity of ...
... style and poetry . In another place we find traces of Plutarch running through several pages , dipping into the various topics of the Morals , gleaning an anecdote here and there from the Lives , and diverted through similarity of ...
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... style ( see 77 14 ) Jonson speaks of an ability , " to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use as " a requisite in our poet " only second to " natural wit " and the exercise of his powers . And Dryden shows his ...
... style ( see 77 14 ) Jonson speaks of an ability , " to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use as " a requisite in our poet " only second to " natural wit " and the exercise of his powers . And Dryden shows his ...
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Page 30 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
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 31 - My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson very finely, " was never increased towards 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.
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 149 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly...
Page 96 - But that which most doth take my Muse and me Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
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 23 - I loved the man, and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature...
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.