Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Felix E. SchellingGinn, 1892 - 166 pages |
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... Plautus , we shall see the economy and disposition of poems better observed than in Terence and the later [ Greek poets ] who thought " etc. ( 57 35-585 ) ; or to Latin influence as : " Creatures . . . that continually labor under their ...
... Plautus , we shall see the economy and disposition of poems better observed than in Terence and the later [ Greek poets ] who thought " etc. ( 57 35-585 ) ; or to Latin influence as : " Creatures . . . that continually labor under their ...
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... things . Tragic and lyric poetry is good too , and comic with the best , if the manners of the reader be once in safety . In the Greek poets , as also in Plautus , 35 we shall see the economy and disposition of poems better DISCOVERIES .
... things . Tragic and lyric poetry is good too , and comic with the best , if the manners of the reader be once in safety . In the Greek poets , as also in Plautus , 35 we shall see the economy and disposition of poems better DISCOVERIES .
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... Plautus , who affirmed , Musas , si Latine loqui 25 voluissent , Plautino sermone fuisse locuturas . " And that illustrious judgment by the most learned M [ arcus ] Varro of him , who pronounced him the prince of letters and elegancy in ...
... Plautus , who affirmed , Musas , si Latine loqui 25 voluissent , Plautino sermone fuisse locuturas . " And that illustrious judgment by the most learned M [ arcus ] Varro of him , who pronounced him the prince of letters and elegancy in ...
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... Plautus vindicated against many that are offended , and say it is a hard censure upon the parent of all conceit and sharpness . And they wish it had not fallen from so great a master and censor in the art , whose 10 bondmen knew better ...
... Plautus vindicated against many that are offended , and say it is a hard censure upon the parent of all conceit and sharpness . And they wish it had not fallen from so great a master and censor in the art , whose 10 bondmen knew better ...
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... Plautus or any other in that kind , but expressed all the moods and figures of what is ridicu- lous oddly . In short , as vinegar is not accounted good until the wine be corrupted , so jests that are true and 30 natural seldom raise ...
... Plautus or any other in that kind , but expressed all the moods and figures of what is ridicu- lous oddly . In short , as vinegar is not accounted good until the wine be corrupted , so jests that are true and 30 natural seldom raise ...
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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 106 - So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Page 145 - Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus el minus in all time.
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 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 152 - Yet it is by no means essential that a poet should accommodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony, which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar versification.
Page 57 - And as it is fit to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be of the openest and clearest; as Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne. And beware of letting them taste Gower or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow rough and barren in language only. When their...
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 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,