 | Darrell Figgis - Dramatists, English - 1911 - 370 pages
...tyring-house bring wounds to scare — his reference to Shakespeare is obvious. But he also speaks of " a child new swaddled to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed " ; and this very evil Shakespeare exemplified later in the Winter's Tale. There is also contempt for... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1912 - 594 pages
...to the proofs produced by the commentators to show how the Prologue bears on all Shakspeare's plays. "To make a child new swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed) To fourscore years." " This is a sneer at the Winter's Tale, written in 1604," in which Perdita, as... | |
 | Francis Meehan - Historical drama, English - 1915 - 132 pages
...of the unity of time that half a century later was to find an echo in Boileau: "To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard, and weed, Past threescore years." Such absurdities, we are told, the author of the present play will not be guilty of, but "He rather... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1917 - 414 pages
...reign extending over many years, into the compass of a single five -act play ! " To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one...foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring house brings wounds, to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Dramatists, English - 1918 - 492 pages
...the proofs produced by the commentators to show how the Prologue bears on all Shakspeare's plays. " To make a child new swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed, To fourscore years." " This is a sneer at the Winter's Tale, written in 1604," in which Perdita, as... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - English literature - 1921 - 454 pages
...in another2 uttered his scorn for the authors who within the compass of one play make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed Past threescore years ; and with three rusty swords And help of some few foot and half foot words Fight over York and Lancaster's... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1922 - 212 pages
...he will not imitate, enumerates— To make a child now swaddled to proceed Man, and then shoot np, in one beard and weed, Past threescore years; or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring... | |
 | Harry Christian Schweikert - English drama - 1928 - 864 pages
...purchase your delight at such a rate, 5 As, for it, he himself must justly hate. To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one...swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, 10 Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring-house brings wounds to scars. He rather... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...contrasted his own aim. He will not "serve the ill customs of the age" and refuses To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one...foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One... | |
 | Dane Farnsworth Smith, M. L. Lawhon - Drama - 1979 - 310 pages
...Colman, Man and Wife, prelude. 103. Colman, Man and wife, 2: 248-51. 104. Ibid. 105. "To make a child now swaddled, to proceed/ Man, and then shoot up, in one...or, with three rusty swords,/ And help of some few foot and half-foot words,/ Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars" (11. 7-11). 106. For Colman's... | |
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