Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 |
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... improper examinations , who know not the requisites of a Poem , nor how much pleasure they lose ( and even the pleasures of Heroick Poesy are not unprofitable ) who take 35 away the liberty of a Poet , and fetter his ΙΟ Sir William ...
... improper examinations , who know not the requisites of a Poem , nor how much pleasure they lose ( and even the pleasures of Heroick Poesy are not unprofitable ) who take 35 away the liberty of a Poet , and fetter his ΙΟ Sir William ...
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... Poesy ; for few have arriv'd at the skill of Orpheus or at his good fortune , 10 Ipheus whom we may suppose to have met with extraordinary Л Grecian Beasts , when so successfully he reclaim'd them with his Harp . Nor is it needfull that ...
... Poesy ; for few have arriv'd at the skill of Orpheus or at his good fortune , 10 Ipheus whom we may suppose to have met with extraordinary Л Grecian Beasts , when so successfully he reclaim'd them with his Harp . Nor is it needfull that ...
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... Poesy , or the Chiefs of any Profession more necessary to the world then excellent Poets . Lastly , though Wit be not the envy of ignorant Men , ' tis often of evill Statesmen , and of all such imperfect great spirits as 25 have in it a ...
... Poesy , or the Chiefs of any Profession more necessary to the world then excellent Poets . Lastly , though Wit be not the envy of ignorant Men , ' tis often of evill Statesmen , and of all such imperfect great spirits as 25 have in it a ...
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... Poesy concern'd the world no more then Dancing , whose onely grace is the quickness and facility of motion , and whose perfection is not of such publique consequence that any man can merit much by 30 attaining it with long labour ; yet ...
... Poesy concern'd the world no more then Dancing , whose onely grace is the quickness and facility of motion , and whose perfection is not of such publique consequence that any man can merit much by 30 attaining it with long labour ; yet ...
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... Poesy . But ' tis not . amiss , ere I avow the usefulnesse of the Science in generall , which was the cause of my undertaking , to remember the 15 value it had from the greatest and most worthy spirits in all Ages ; for I will not ...
... Poesy . But ' tis not . amiss , ere I avow the usefulnesse of the Science in generall , which was the cause of my undertaking , to remember the 15 value it had from the greatest and most worthy spirits in all Ages ; for I will not ...
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Strona 228 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Strona 118 - They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.
Strona 250 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Strona 226 - Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise ; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you : Arise, I say.
Strona 334 - I'll give no more, but I'll undo The world by dying, because love dies too. Then all your beauties will be no more worth Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth, And all your graces no more use shall have Than a sun-dial in a grave.
Strona 80 - Clymate, how can it choose but wither in a long and a sharp winter ? a warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in.
Strona 243 - Full of crusadoes : and, but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. Emil. Is he not jealous? Des. Who, he ? I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him.
Strona 240 - Ay, there's the point: — As, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends: Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Strona 95 - Graces, and can artfully vary and modulate 10 his Voice, even to know how much breath he is to give to every syllable. He had all the parts of an excellent Orator, animating his words with speaking, and Speech with Action...
Strona 252 - Then might he, believing her dead, touch'd with remorse, have honestly 25 cut his own Throat, by the good leave and with the applause of all the Spectators : Who might thereupon have gone home with a quiet mind, admiring the beauty of Providence, fairly and truly represented on the Theatre.