Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... beginning of Feavers : And those moral Visions are just of so much use to humane application as painted History , when with the cousenage of lights it is represented 35 in Scenes , by which we are much lesse inform'd 6 Sir William Davenant.
... beginning of Feavers : And those moral Visions are just of so much use to humane application as painted History , when with the cousenage of lights it is represented 35 in Scenes , by which we are much lesse inform'd 6 Sir William Davenant.
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... beginning of this Preface when we look'd upon the Ancients . And those errors consist in their abasing Religion by repre senting the Gods in evil proportion and their Heroes with as unequal Characters , and so brought Vices into fashion ...
... beginning of this Preface when we look'd upon the Ancients . And those errors consist in their abasing Religion by repre senting the Gods in evil proportion and their Heroes with as unequal Characters , and so brought Vices into fashion ...
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... beginning , and sometimes also in the progress of their Poems , to invoke a Muse or some other Deity that should dictate to them or assist them in their 15 writings , they that take not the laws of Art from any reason of their own but ...
... beginning , and sometimes also in the progress of their Poems , to invoke a Muse or some other Deity that should dictate to them or assist them in their 15 writings , they that take not the laws of Art from any reason of their own but ...
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... beginning , and how in the course of the actions of these ( the number increasing ) after several confluences they run all at last into the two principal streams of your Poem , Gondibert and Oswald , methinks the Fable is not much 30 ...
... beginning , and how in the course of the actions of these ( the number increasing ) after several confluences they run all at last into the two principal streams of your Poem , Gondibert and Oswald , methinks the Fable is not much 30 ...
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... beginning . The variation whereof is a change of pace that argues the Poet tired . Of the Indecencies of an Heroick Poem the most re- 5 appropriateness markable are those that shew disproportion either between of Character the persons ...
... beginning . The variation whereof is a change of pace that argues the Poet tired . Of the Indecencies of an Heroick Poem the most re- 5 appropriateness markable are those that shew disproportion either between of Character the persons ...
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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.