The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1910 |
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Pàgina 9
... shows the opinions that he selected and shared , and the wide range of his reading , especially in later classical ... show aught but careful writing , but there are also few that can be praised unreservedly or read with delight . The ...
... shows the opinions that he selected and shared , and the wide range of his reading , especially in later classical ... show aught but careful writing , but there are also few that can be praised unreservedly or read with delight . The ...
Pàgina 16
... show an image of the times , And sport with human follies , not with crimes . The play , happily , is free from the laboriousness that often results from devotion to a theory . The plot , of Jonson's own in- vention , deals with tricks ...
... show an image of the times , And sport with human follies , not with crimes . The play , happily , is free from the laboriousness that often results from devotion to a theory . The plot , of Jonson's own in- vention , deals with tricks ...
Pàgina 17
... shows a return to old ways . The comedy entitled The Case is Altered hardly belongs to the class of humoristic ... show how conscious was his art , and how carefully considered his aims . He exhibits his knowledge of the history and ...
... shows a return to old ways . The comedy entitled The Case is Altered hardly belongs to the class of humoristic ... show how conscious was his art , and how carefully considered his aims . He exhibits his knowledge of the history and ...
Pàgina 21
... show Jonson at his best ; and he was justly proud , as he boasted in the prologue , of having written in five weeks a comedy that observed the laws of time , place and persons , and swerved from no needful rule . In the dedication to ...
... show Jonson at his best ; and he was justly proud , as he boasted in the prologue , of having written in five weeks a comedy that observed the laws of time , place and persons , and swerved from no needful rule . In the dedication to ...
Pàgina 23
... show ' , a foolish widow , a puritan zealot , Cokes , a booby , and his man Waspe , mingle in the fair with a cutpurse , a ballad singer , a tapster , a bawd , a bully and that Falstaffia of the stews , Ursula the pig woman . The ...
... show ' , a foolish widow , a puritan zealot , Cokes , a booby , and his man Waspe , mingle in the fair with a cutpurse , a ballad singer , a tapster , a bawd , a bully and that Falstaffia of the stews , Ursula the pig woman . The ...
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Pàgina 118 - Fletcher's ideas moved slow ; his versification, though sweet, is tedious, it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line, making up one after the other, adding image to image so deliberately, that we see their junctures. Shakspeare mingles every thing, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences and metaphors ; before one idea has burst its shell, another is hatched and clamorous for disclosure.
Pàgina 39 - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to venerie.
Pàgina 125 - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Pàgina 44 - Why, heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ! he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.—Bur.
Pàgina 112 - Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study: Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots.
Pàgina 34 - D'Ambois" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ; * nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Pàgina 22 - Wherein, if my Muses be true to me, I shall raise the despised head of Poetry again, and, stripping her out of those rotten and base rags wherewith the times have adulterated her form, restore her to her primitive habit, feature, and majesty, and render her worthy to be embraced and kissed of all the great and master spirits of our world.
Pàgina 24 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Pàgina 8 - Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flow'd out of his daily Readings, or had their refluxe to his peculiar Notions of the Times. By Ben: Johnson. Tecum habita, ut noris quam sit tibi curia supellex. Pers. Sat. iv. London, Printed M.DC.XLI.
Pàgina 344 - IT is a noble and just advantage that the things subjected to understanding have of those which are objected to sense ; that the one sort are but momentary, and merely taking; the other impressing, and lasting : else the glory of all these solemnities had perished like a blaze, and gone out in the beholders