Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... Passions then to 30 record the truth of Actions , and practise to describe Man- kinde just as we are perswaded or guided by instinct , not particular persons as they are lifted or levell'd by the force of Fate , it being nobler to ...
... Passions then to 30 record the truth of Actions , and practise to describe Man- kinde just as we are perswaded or guided by instinct , not particular persons as they are lifted or levell'd by the force of Fate , it being nobler to ...
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... Passions , though they terme it but Story , then they increase in dignity and become Poets . I have been thus hardy to call him to account for the 5 choice of his Argument , not meerly as it was Story , but : because the actions he ...
... Passions , though they terme it but Story , then they increase in dignity and become Poets . I have been thus hardy to call him to account for the 5 choice of his Argument , not meerly as it was Story , but : because the actions he ...
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... passion of Historians would impose the contrary on our beleef , who in dispraise of evil 20 Princes are often as unjust and excessive as the common People for there was never any Monarch so cruel but he had living Subjects , nor so ...
... passion of Historians would impose the contrary on our beleef , who in dispraise of evil 20 Princes are often as unjust and excessive as the common People for there was never any Monarch so cruel but he had living Subjects , nor so ...
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... Passions ; For we may descend to compare the deceptions in Poesie to those of them that professe dexterity of Hand 30 which resembles Conjuring , and to such we come not with the intention of Lawyers to examine the evidence of Facts ...
... Passions ; For we may descend to compare the deceptions in Poesie to those of them that professe dexterity of Hand 30 which resembles Conjuring , and to such we come not with the intention of Lawyers to examine the evidence of Facts ...
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... passions are to be eschew'd I have deriv'd from the distempers of Love or Ambition , for Love and Ambition are too often the raging Feavers of great minds . Yet Ambition , if the vulgar acception of the word were corrected , would ...
... passions are to be eschew'd I have deriv'd from the distempers of Love or Ambition , for Love and Ambition are too often the raging Feavers of great minds . Yet Ambition , if the vulgar acception of the word were corrected , would ...
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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...