The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Volumen9G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportion'd wit , To nature , the best judge of what was fit ; The deepest , plainest , highest , clearest pen ; The voice most echo'd by consenting men ; THE SOUL WHICH ANSWER'D ...
... learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportion'd wit , To nature , the best judge of what was fit ; The deepest , plainest , highest , clearest pen ; The voice most echo'd by consenting men ; THE SOUL WHICH ANSWER'D ...
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... learned Mr. West's preface to his elegant translation of the Odes of Pindar . It is chiefly built upon a passage in the Scholia on He- phæstion . " The ancients , says the scholiast , in their odes framed two larger stanzas , and one ...
... learned Mr. West's preface to his elegant translation of the Odes of Pindar . It is chiefly built upon a passage in the Scholia on He- phæstion . " The ancients , says the scholiast , in their odes framed two larger stanzas , and one ...
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... learned reader may compare this with the 8th ode of the fourth book of Ho- race , as it seems to be copied from it . Our poet , as we find by some verses wrote by no well - wisher to him , received forty pounds for this Epigram . Let ...
... learned reader may compare this with the 8th ode of the fourth book of Ho- race , as it seems to be copied from it . Our poet , as we find by some verses wrote by no well - wisher to him , received forty pounds for this Epigram . Let ...
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... learned lord Allows them ! then , what copies shall be had , What transcripts begg'd ! how cried up , and how glad the couplet quoted by Whalley , " Mr. Elias Ashmole assures me from two or three nativities by Dr. Napier , that Ben ...
... learned lord Allows them ! then , what copies shall be had , What transcripts begg'd ! how cried up , and how glad the couplet quoted by Whalley , " Mr. Elias Ashmole assures me from two or three nativities by Dr. Napier , that Ben ...
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... learned and witty , the jovial and gay , The generous and honest , compose our free state ; 4 And the more to exalt our delight whilst we stay , Let none be debarr'd from his choice female mate . 1 Apollo of the Old Devil Tavern . ] The ...
... learned and witty , the jovial and gay , The generous and honest , compose our free state ; 4 And the more to exalt our delight whilst we stay , Let none be debarr'd from his choice female mate . 1 Apollo of the Old Devil Tavern . ] The ...
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Página 181 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 11 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 173 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 218 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.
Página 172 - For they commend writers as they do fencers or wrestlers ; who, if they come in robustiously, and put for it with a great deal of violence, are received for the braver fellows...
Página 154 - ... scoffing. For to all the observations of the Ancients we have our own experience, which if we will use, and apply, we have better means to pronounce. It is true, they opened the gates, and made the way, that went before us; but as guides, not commanders: Non domini nostri, sed duces, fuere.
Página 174 - 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, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 175 - They would not have it run without rubs, as if that style were more strong and manly that struck the ear with a kind of unevenness. These men err not by chance, but knowingly and willingly; they are like men that affect a fashion by themselves; have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hatband; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark upon themselves.
Página 211 - So did the best writers in their beginnings: they imposed upon themselves care and industry; they did nothing rashly; they obtained first to write well and then custom made it easy and a habit.
Página 232 - Hence he is called a poet, not he which writeth in measure only, but that feigneth and formeth a fable, and writes things like the truth. For the fable and fiction is, as it were, the form and soul of any poetical work, or poem.