Plays: Advertisement to the second edition. Introduction; Essay on the writings of MassingerG. and W. Nicol, 1813 |
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Pagina iv
... writers strenuously affirm , on summing up their censure , " would probably have been thought too harsh , if the corrupt taste of the times had not justified its asperity . Ed . Rev. No. 23 , p . 99 . It is almost too much to be ...
... writers strenuously affirm , on summing up their censure , " would probably have been thought too harsh , if the corrupt taste of the times had not justified its asperity . Ed . Rev. No. 23 , p . 99 . It is almost too much to be ...
Pagina xv
... writer , [ found ( the Reviewers will not believe me ) the derivation which has so amused them , and laid it up in my mind for this very passage . When I came , long afterwards , to the work , the author had escaped me . I thought it ...
... writer , [ found ( the Reviewers will not believe me ) the derivation which has so amused them , and laid it up in my mind for this very passage . When I came , long afterwards , to the work , the author had escaped me . I thought it ...
Pagina xxv
... writers , and of Massinger among the rest : - " but there is undoubtedly an error , for ” —I beseech the reader to attend , " for Massinger is NEVER DEFECTIVE IN HIS METRE . " In this very scene , nay page , there are several unme ...
... writers , and of Massinger among the rest : - " but there is undoubtedly an error , for ” —I beseech the reader to attend , " for Massinger is NEVER DEFECTIVE IN HIS METRE . " In this very scene , nay page , there are several unme ...
Pagina xxxii
... writer would have yelled out many sylla- bles of dolour on the occasion . But this was not Mas- singer's mode ; and it yet remains to be proved that the modern writer would be right . am The critics now recur to the Parliament of Love ...
... writer would have yelled out many sylla- bles of dolour on the occasion . But this was not Mas- singer's mode ; and it yet remains to be proved that the modern writer would be right . am The critics now recur to the Parliament of Love ...
Pagina xxxvii
... writers of Massinger's life have thought it necessary to observe in this place , that the His father was Arthur ... writer , got his information from the first edition of the Bondman , 1623 , which , it appears from this , Mr. Davies ...
... writers of Massinger's life have thought it necessary to observe in this place , that the His father was Arthur ... writer , got his information from the first edition of the Bondman , 1623 , which , it appears from this , Mr. Davies ...
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Pagina cxxxii - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pagina xxxix - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Pagina 31 - Was ravished with a more celestial sound. Were every servant in the world like thee, So full of goodness, angels would come down To dwell with us : thy name is Angelo, And like that name thou art. Get thee to rest ; Thy youth with too much watching is opprest.
Pagina 136 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Pagina cxxxiii - Humanity then lodged in the hearts of men, And thankful masters carefully provided For creatures wanting reason. The noble horse, That, in his fiery youth, from his wide nostrils Neigh'd courage to his rider, and brake through Groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord Safe to triumphant victory; old or wounded, Was set at liberty, and freed from service. The Athenian mules, that from the quarry drew Marble, hew'd for the temples of the gods, The great work ended, were dismiss' d, and fed At the public...
Pagina lvii - They were lodged in the Council Chamber, where the King in his shirt and nightgown gave them a Reveille Matin before they were up, and spent a good time in or upon the bed, chuse which you will believe.
Pagina 102 - It was played by six people, three of each sex, who were coupled by lot. A piece of ground was then chosen, and divided into three compartments, of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the two extremities ; in which case a change of situation took place, and hell was filled by the couple who were excluded by pro -occupation from the other places ; in this
Pagina 103 - They break, and Love would Reason meet, But Hate was nimbler on her feet; Fancy looks for Pride, and thither Hies, and they two hug together: Yet this new coupling still doth tell That Love and Folly were in hell.
Pagina 100 - I had a mistress, late sent hence by you Upon a bloody errand ; you entreated, That, when she came into that blessed garden Whither she knew she went, and where, now happy, She feeds upon all joy, she would send to you Some of that garden fruit and flowers ; which here, To have her promise saved, are brought by me.
Pagina cxxvi - But look on gold with contempt. And yet I found, What weak credulity could have no faith in, A treasure far exceeding these. Here lay A manor bound fast in a skin of parchment ; The wax continuing hard, the acres melting. Here a sure deed of gift for a market town, If not redeem'd this day ; which is not in The unthrift's power.