The Return from Parnassus: Or, The Scourge of SimonyWilliam Henry Oliphant Smeaton Dent, 1905 - 135 Seiten |
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Seite 78 - Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down — ay, 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 bewray his credit.
Seite 127 - It is a common practice nowadays amongst a sort of shifting companions, that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca read by candlelight yields many good sentences, as "Blood is a beggar...
Seite 109 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare : witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Seite 10 - Such barmy heads wil alwaies be working, when as sad vineger wittes sit souring at the bottome of a barrell : plaine Meteors, bred of the exhalation of Tobacco, and the vapors of a moyst pot, that soure vp into the open ayre, when as sounder wit keepes belowe.
Seite 12 - The prouder groves of self-admiring Rome. Blithe was each valley, and each shepherd proud, While he did chant his rural minstrelsy: Attentive was full many a dainty ear, Nay, hearers hung upon his melting tongue, While sweetly of his Fairy Queen he sung; While to the waters...
Seite 15 - Alas ! unhappy in his life and end ; Pity it is that wit so ill should dwell, Wit lent from heaven, but vices sent from hell.
Seite 79 - But be merry, my lads, you have happened upon the most excellent vocation in the world for money ; they come North and South to bring it to our playhouse ; and for honours, who of more report than Dick Burbage and Will Kempe ? He is not counted a gentleman, that knows not Dick Burbage and Will Kempe.
Seite 6 - Whose former griefs seldom have happy end. Frame as well, we might with easy strain, With far more praise, and with as little pain, Stories of love, where...
Seite 10 - English flores-poetarum ; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filched from the nest of crows and kestrels...
Seite 16 - Judicio, that carried the deadly stock in his pen, whose muse was armed with a gagtooth, and his pen possessed with Hercules' furies. Jud. Let all his faults sleep with his mournful chest, And then for ever with his ashes rest. His style was witty, though he had some gall. Something he might have mended, so may all. Yet this I say, that for a mother wit, Few men have ever seen the like of it.