Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... Argument , not meerly as it was Story , but because the actions he recorded were so eminent , and so neer his time , that he could not assist Truth with such orna- ments as Poets , for useful pleasure , have allowed her , least the ...
... Argument , not meerly as it was Story , but because the actions he recorded were so eminent , and so neer his time , that he could not assist Truth with such orna- ments as Poets , for useful pleasure , have allowed her , least the ...
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... Argument , we must observe with others , that his noble and most artfull hands deserv'd to be employ'd upon matter of a more naturall and therefore of a more usefull kinde : His allegoricall Story , by many held defective in the ...
... Argument , we must observe with others , that his noble and most artfull hands deserv'd to be employ'd upon matter of a more naturall and therefore of a more usefull kinde : His allegoricall Story , by many held defective in the ...
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... Argument I resolv'd should consist of Christian persons ; for since Religion doth generally beget and govern manners , I thought the example of their actions 10 would prevail most upon our own by being deriv'd from the same doctrin and ...
... Argument I resolv'd should consist of Christian persons ; for since Religion doth generally beget and govern manners , I thought the example of their actions 10 would prevail most upon our own by being deriv'd from the same doctrin and ...
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... Argument from men of our own Religion , and given you reasons for the choyce of the time and place design'd for those actions , I must next acquaint you with the 25 Schooles where they were bred ; not meaning the Schooles where they ...
... Argument from men of our own Religion , and given you reasons for the choyce of the time and place design'd for those actions , I must next acquaint you with the 25 Schooles where they were bred ; not meaning the Schooles where they ...
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... Argument is onely meant as an assistance to the 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 ...
... Argument is onely meant as an assistance to the 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 ...
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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 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 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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.