Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... Readers . He is upbrayded by some ( who perhaps are affected Antiquaries , and make priority of time the measure of excellence ) for gaining his renown by immitation of Homer : Whilst others , no less bold with that ancient Guide , say ...
... Readers . He is upbrayded by some ( who perhaps are affected Antiquaries , and make priority of time the measure of excellence ) for gaining his renown by immitation of Homer : Whilst others , no less bold with that ancient Guide , say ...
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... Reader , whose incredulity , when things are not represented in proportion , doth much allay the rellish of his pity , hope , joy , and other Passions ; For we may descend to compare the deceptions in Poesie to those of them that ...
... Reader , whose incredulity , when things are not represented in proportion , doth much allay the rellish of his pity , hope , joy , and other Passions ; For we may descend to compare the deceptions in Poesie to those of them that ...
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... Readers , since only the is seen at common 30 executions , nor intended to rabble to that height of iniquity horrour , till it might seem the fury of something worse then a beast . In order to the first , I beleeve the Spartans , who ...
... Readers , since only the is seen at common 30 executions , nor intended to rabble to that height of iniquity horrour , till it might seem the fury of something worse then a beast . In order to the first , I beleeve the Spartans , who ...
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... readers memory , by 30 containing brief hints , such as , if all the Arguments were successively read , would make him easily remember the mutual dependancies of the general design ; yet each rather mentions every person acting then ...
... readers memory , by 30 containing brief hints , such as , if all the Arguments were successively read , would make him easily remember the mutual dependancies of the general design ; yet each rather mentions every person acting then ...
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... Reader ( whom the Writer should surprize , and , as it were , keep prisoner for a time ) as he hath on his Enemies , who commanding a party out 5 to take them ( and commonly Readers are justly Enemies to Writers ) imparts openly the ...
... Reader ( whom the Writer should surprize , and , as it were , keep prisoner for a time ) as he hath on his Enemies , who commanding a party out 5 to take them ( and commonly Readers are justly Enemies to Writers ) imparts openly the ...
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Page 221 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 210 - Garganum mugire putes nemus aut mare Tuscum, tanto cum strepitu ludi spectantur et artes divitiaeque peregrinae, quibus oblitus actor cum stetit in scaena, concurrit dextera laevae. 205 dixit adhuc aliquid? nil sane. quid placet ergo? lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno.
Page 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.
Page 233 - Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees ; — Hail to thee, lady ! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round ! Des.
Page 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.
Page 221 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 80 - Age, and so much to my own prejudice in regard of those more profitable matches which I might have made among the richer Sciences. As for the Portion which this brings of Fame, it is an Estate (if it be any...