The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.Archibald Constable, 1820 - 674 strán (strany) |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 46.
Strana xxix
... gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr. Farmer informs me that these words are merely technical . A wool - man , butcher , and dealer in skewers " ( and he takes care that the point shall not be lost for want ...
... gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr. Farmer informs me that these words are merely technical . A wool - man , butcher , and dealer in skewers " ( and he takes care that the point shall not be lost for want ...
Strana xxxvi
... give me more pleasure than to have my ignorance removed upon these subjects : a new mine will thus be opened to me . That you will find much dross mixed with the native ore you will be prepared to expect ( rejoined Bourne ) , but as I ...
... give me more pleasure than to have my ignorance removed upon these subjects : a new mine will thus be opened to me . That you will find much dross mixed with the native ore you will be prepared to expect ( rejoined Bourne ) , but as I ...
Strana xxxvii
... give you fair warning that you must take your chance . Besides ( said Morton ) , we ought to recollect that some rare tracts that have no immediate interest are often not unimportant as illustrating the state of feeling , opinion , or ...
... give you fair warning that you must take your chance . Besides ( said Morton ) , we ought to recollect that some rare tracts that have no immediate interest are often not unimportant as illustrating the state of feeling , opinion , or ...
Strana xxxix
... gives me an opportunity of correcting a mistake which has crept into all the lists of his productions , and particularly into that of Mr. Haslewood , in his Cens . Lit. ( VIII . 387 , 1st Edit . ) . He is not the author of " The ground ...
... gives me an opportunity of correcting a mistake which has crept into all the lists of his productions , and particularly into that of Mr. Haslewood , in his Cens . Lit. ( VIII . 387 , 1st Edit . ) . He is not the author of " The ground ...
Strana xliii
... upon ! What would I give Old Michael Angelo revive , Make Titian , Vandyke or bold Ruben live ! " with several stanzas more , in which the thought is carried out . P. 177. l . 28. In the list of R. NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . xliii.
... upon ! What would I give Old Michael Angelo revive , Make Titian , Vandyke or bold Ruben live ! " with several stanzas more , in which the thought is carried out . P. 177. l . 28. In the list of R. NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . xliii.
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
Ben Jonson Bibliographer blank verse BOURNE called certainly Chapman copy curious dare say death DECAMERON Donne doth Drake Drayton edition ELLIOT English satirist epigrams Epistle extract Fitzgeffrey Francis Francis Meres Gabriel Harvey George Chapman George Peele giue Goddard Greene's Hall hath haue hear heauen John John Marston John Webster kind Latin lines liue Lodge's Lord loue Marlow Marston mean mentioned Momus MORTON Muses Nash night noble observe Parasitaster passage Peele perhaps pieces Pigmalions play poem Poesie poet POETICAL DECAMERON poetry praise printed probably production prose published Queen quotation quoted rarity recollect remarkable reprint rhyme rime Ritson satires satirist Satyres seems Shakespeare Sidney Sir Francis Drake sonnet speaking specimen Spenser stanza suppose sweete thee thing thou tion tract translation vertue vnto vpon Webster Whetstone words worth writers wrote
Populárne pasáže
Strana 270 - Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
Strana 22 - Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence ; yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Strana xix - ... genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients.
Strana 244 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Strana 154 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Strana 68 - ENTITLED To the noble and vertuous Gentleman, most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie, MA1STER PHILIP SIDNEY.
Strana xliii - Of a Jew, who would for his Debt have a Pound of the Flesh of a Christian.
Strana xliv - Wonder not (for with thee will I first begin), thou famous gracer of tragedians, that Greene, who hath said with thee like the fool in his heart, "There is no God...
Strana 160 - twixt each drop, he nigardly, As loth to enrich mee, so tells many a lie. More than ten Hollensheads, or Halls, or Stowes, Of triviall houshold trash he knowes ; He knowes When the Queene frown'd, or smil'd, and he knowes what A subtle States-man may gather of that...
Strana 191 - Tis physic, clothing, music, meat, and drink. Gods would have revell'd at their feats of Mirth With this pure distillation of the Earth ; The Marrow of the World, Star of the West, The Pearl whereby this lower Orb is blest ; The Joy of Mortals, Umpire of all Strife, Delight of Nature, Mithridate of Life ; The daintiest dish of a delicious feast, By taking which Man differs from a beast.