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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... reasons : as one of the best examples of later Elizabethan prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher claim is to be found in the sound sense , discriminating judgment , and lofty ...
... reasons : as one of the best examples of later Elizabethan prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher claim is to be found in the sound sense , discriminating judgment , and lofty ...
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... reasons which space will not permit me to set forth here , that at least two of the plays contained in this volume had received touches from the hand of the author , and that " as to the pieces dated 1640 and 1641 , some of the smaller ...
... reasons which space will not permit me to set forth here , that at least two of the plays contained in this volume had received touches from the hand of the author , and that " as to the pieces dated 1640 and 1641 , some of the smaller ...
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... reason , what he accounts it and will make it . -- Casus . Change into extremity is very frequent and easy . As when a beggar suddenly grows rich , he com- 15 monly becomes a prodigal ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
... reason , what he accounts it and will make it . -- Casus . Change into extremity is very frequent and easy . As when a beggar suddenly grows rich , he com- 15 monly becomes a prodigal ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
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... reason . We labor with it more than truth . There is much more holds us than presseth us . An ill fact is one 30 thing , an ill fortune is another ; yet both oftentimes sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Impostura . Many men ...
... reason . We labor with it more than truth . There is much more holds us than presseth us . An ill fact is one 30 thing , an ill fortune is another ; yet both oftentimes sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Impostura . Many men ...
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... reason examined with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither author nor fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict himself to me ; but if I have any- thing right , defend it as ...
... reason examined with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither author nor fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict himself to me ; but if I have any- thing right , defend it as ...
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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,