Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... Ben Jonson . His patron , the earl of Devonshire , dying in 1626 , and his son two years after , Hobbes accompanied the son of sir Gervase Clifton to France ; but in 1631 , his return was solicited by the countess dowager of Devonshire ...
... Ben Jonson . His patron , the earl of Devonshire , dying in 1626 , and his son two years after , Hobbes accompanied the son of sir Gervase Clifton to France ; but in 1631 , his return was solicited by the countess dowager of Devonshire ...
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... Ben Jonson , and others of higher quality for he was countenanced by Charles and his queen . He subsequently conceived a disgust at the court , however , probably from a disappoint- ment in his expectation of being successor to Ben ...
... Ben Jonson , and others of higher quality for he was countenanced by Charles and his queen . He subsequently conceived a disgust at the court , however , probably from a disappoint- ment in his expectation of being successor to Ben ...
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... Ben Jonson as poet - laureat , William d'Ave- nant being appointed in his stead . We after- wards find him in the republican army com- manded by Fairfax , and in the post of a secre- taryship under the parliament . He died in 1650 . 1 ...
... Ben Jonson as poet - laureat , William d'Ave- nant being appointed in his stead . We after- wards find him in the republican army com- manded by Fairfax , and in the post of a secre- taryship under the parliament . He died in 1650 . 1 ...
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... Ben Jonson , And is thy glass run out , is that oil spent Which light to such strong sinewy labours lent ? Well , Ben , I now perceive that all the nine , Tho ' they their utmost forces should combine , Cannot prevail ' gainst Night's ...
... Ben Jonson , And is thy glass run out , is that oil spent Which light to such strong sinewy labours lent ? Well , Ben , I now perceive that all the nine , Tho ' they their utmost forces should combine , Cannot prevail ' gainst Night's ...
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... Jonson , never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court , when Ben's reputation was at highest , sir John Suckling , and with him the greater part of the courtiers , set ... Ben . Jonson derived from DRYDEN . 471.
... Jonson , never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court , when Ben's reputation was at highest , sir John Suckling , and with him the greater part of the courtiers , set ... Ben . Jonson derived from DRYDEN . 471.
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Page 462 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 185 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Page 461 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Page 185 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 189 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 177 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 218 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 141 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Page 301 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Page 132 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.