The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times. With Notes, Observations, Illustrations, and an IntroductionBell and Daldy, 1870 - 587 pages |
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Page viii
... Ben Jonson are the only writers of the early period of our literature who are noticed in any of the later collections . Yet , defective as are these works , they are of great value , for they have preserved a large number of epigrams ...
... Ben Jonson are the only writers of the early period of our literature who are noticed in any of the later collections . Yet , defective as are these works , they are of great value , for they have preserved a large number of epigrams ...
Page xxv
... Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick . As an Epi- grammatist , the style of the former is very varied . He well understood the Greek manner , and when he strays from it , as he too often does , into scurrilous and coarse language , he shows at ...
... Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick . As an Epi- grammatist , the style of the former is very varied . He well understood the Greek manner , and when he strays from it , as he too often does , into scurrilous and coarse language , he shows at ...
Page xxvii
... Ben Jonson , excels more than in any other kind of epigrammatic poetry , though there is little similarity in the character of their inscrip- tions . This , for the tomb of a young mother of many chil- dren , has all the terseness and ...
... Ben Jonson , excels more than in any other kind of epigrammatic poetry , though there is little similarity in the character of their inscrip- tions . This , for the tomb of a young mother of many chil- dren , has all the terseness and ...
Page 129
... Ben Jonson ( who was born in the same year in which Amaltheus died ) placing a translation of it among his own epigrams , though so bald is the rendering that it does no justice to the original . Herrick has an epigram " On the Hour ...
... Ben Jonson ( who was born in the same year in which Amaltheus died ) placing a translation of it among his own epigrams , though so bald is the rendering that it does no justice to the original . Herrick has an epigram " On the Hour ...
Page 169
... Ben Jonson ( Ep . 42 ) : Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be ? Th ' observing neighbours no such mood can see . Indeed , poor Giles repents he married ever ; But that his Joan doth too . And Giles would never By his free will be ...
... Ben Jonson ( Ep . 42 ) : Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be ? Th ' observing neighbours no such mood can see . Indeed , poor Giles repents he married ever ; But that his Joan doth too . And Giles would never By his free will be ...
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