A Study of Ben JonsonChatto & Windus, 1889 - 181 עמודים A critical study of the noted writer & contemporary of Shakespeare, by the eminent Victorian critic. |
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עמוד 175 - Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind.
עמוד 159 - ... to me, that keeps me from cruelty, pride, or other more delicate impertinences, which are the nurse-children of riches. But let them look over all the great and monstrous wickednesses, they shall never find those in poor families. They are the issue of the wealthy giants, and the mighty hunters : whereas no great work, or worthy of praise or memory, but came out of poor cradles.
עמוד 150 - I have considered our whole life is like a play : wherein every man forgetful of himself, is in travail with expression of another. Nay, we so insist in 25 imitating others, as we cannot when it is necessary return to ourselves...
עמוד 81 - ... than presented to the eye. Examples of all these kinds are frequent, not only among all the ancients, but in the best received of our English poets. We find Ben Jonson using them in his Magnetic Lady...
עמוד 141 - Is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting. Some wits are swelling and high ; others low and still : some hot and fiery, others cold and dull : one must have a bridle, the other a spur.
עמוד 174 - Some words are to be culled out for ornament and colour, as we gather flowers to strow houses, or make garlands ; but they are better when they grow to our style ; as in a meadow, where though the mere grass and greenness delight, yet the variety of flowers doth heighten and beautify.
עמוד 168 - ... have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it ; as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his course, as stir his mettle. Again, whether a man's genius is best able to reach thither, it should more and more contend, lift, and dilate itself, as men of low stature raise themselves on their toes, and so oft-times get even, if not eminent.
עמוד 158 - Nay, they would offer to urge mine own writings against me, but by pieces (which was an excellent way of malice)-: as if any man's context might not seem dangerous and offensive, if that which was knit to what went before were defrauded of his beginning; or that things by themselves uttered might not seem subject to calumny, which read entire, would appear most free.
עמוד 163 - A man should study other things, not to covet, not to fear, not to repent him : to make his base such, as no tempest shall shake him : to be secure of all opinion, and pleasing to himself, even for that wherein he displeaseth others : for the worst opinion gotten for doing well, should delight us. Wouldst not thou be just but for fame, thou...
עמוד 145 - I deny not but that these men, who always seek to do more than enough, may some time happen on something that is good and great ; but very seldom: and when it comes it doth not recompense the rest of their ill. It sticks out, perhaps, and is more eminent, because all is sordid and vile about it; as lights are more discerned in a thick darkness than a faint shadow.