The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Band 9G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... Greek odes . The English reader may possibly be desirous to have them more particularly explained ; what I have to say therefore on this point , I shall take the liberty to borrow from the learned Mr. West's preface to his elegant ...
... Greek odes . The English reader may possibly be desirous to have them more particularly explained ; what I have to say therefore on this point , I shall take the liberty to borrow from the learned Mr. West's preface to his elegant ...
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... Greek and Roman predecessors . WHAL . I do not quite understand what was meant to be said in this note ; but I will venture to add to it , that there is a great deal of grace and beauty in this little compliment . EPITHALAMION . OR A ...
... Greek and Roman predecessors . WHAL . I do not quite understand what was meant to be said in this note ; but I will venture to add to it , that there is a great deal of grace and beauty in this little compliment . EPITHALAMION . OR A ...
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... Greek hands in picture , or in stone . This I would do , could I think WESTON one Catch'd with these arts , wherein the judge is wise As far as sense , and only by the eyes . But you , I know , my lord , and know you can Discern between ...
... Greek hands in picture , or in stone . This I would do , could I think WESTON one Catch'd with these arts , wherein the judge is wise As far as sense , and only by the eyes . But you , I know , my lord , and know you can Discern between ...
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... of him probably is the old catch , beginning , Old Sir Simon the king —————— WHAL . 4 Wine it is the milk of Venus . ] From the Greek Anacreontic , Οινος γαλα Αφροδίτης . WHAL . TRANSLATIONS FROM THE LATIN POETS . HORACE HIS ART OF [ 87 ]
... of him probably is the old catch , beginning , Old Sir Simon the king —————— WHAL . 4 Wine it is the milk of Venus . ] From the Greek Anacreontic , Οινος γαλα Αφροδίτης . WHAL . TRANSLATIONS FROM THE LATIN POETS . HORACE HIS ART OF [ 87 ]
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... Greek examples for your light , In hand , and turn them over day and night . Our ancestors did Plautus ' numbers praise , And jests ; and both to admiration raise Too patiently , that I not fondly say , If either you or I know the right ...
... Greek examples for your light , In hand , and turn them over day and night . Our ancestors did Plautus ' numbers praise , And jests ; and both to admiration raise Too patiently , that I not fondly say , If either you or I know the right ...
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adjective adverbs ANTISTROPHE Aristotle beauty BEN JONSON BENJAMIN JONSON called CHAP Chaucer comedy counsel death declension Digby diphthongs divers doth Duggs earl ELEGY enim epode Euripides fable fair fame feign GILCHRIST glory Gower grace Greek hæc hath honour JONSON judgment Kecks king labour lady language Latin learned less letter Lidgate light litera live lord master mind modò muse nature never noble noun past perfect person Pindar Plautus plural poem poet poetry praise preposition prince quæ quàm quid Quintilian quod rhyme Scalig Sejanus Shackerley Marmion Shep shew sibi sing singular Sir Thomas sonum soul sound speak speech style substantive sweet syllabe syntax thee thine things thou thought tibi tongue true truth unto verb verse vice virtue vocalis vowels WHAL whereof whole wise words write
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.