Discoveries, 1641: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1619John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1641 - 106 Seiten |
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... thinke Nature is so spent , and decay'd , Natura that she can bring forth nothing worth her former non effœta . yeares . She is alwayes the same , like her selfe : And when she collects her strength , is abler still . Men are decay'd ...
... thinke Nature is so spent , and decay'd , Natura that she can bring forth nothing worth her former non effœta . yeares . She is alwayes the same , like her selfe : And when she collects her strength , is abler still . Men are decay'd ...
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... thinke the scope of their labour , and enquiry , was to envy their posterity , what they also could adde , and find out . If I erre , pardon me : Nulla ars simul & inventa est , & absoluta . I doe not desire to be equall to those that ...
... thinke the scope of their labour , and enquiry , was to envy their posterity , what they also could adde , and find out . If I erre , pardon me : Nulla ars simul & inventa est , & absoluta . I doe not desire to be equall to those that ...
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... thinke wee cannot : and wee love it , because wee will defend it . Wee will rather excuse it , then be rid of it . That wee cannot , is pretended ; but that wee will not , is the true reason . How many have I knowne 24 DISCOVERIES.
... thinke wee cannot : and wee love it , because wee will defend it . Wee will rather excuse it , then be rid of it . That wee cannot , is pretended ; but that wee will not , is the true reason . How many have I knowne 24 DISCOVERIES.
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... thinke they desir'd it , but they may lye for all that ; they are a little angry with their follies , now and then ; marry they come into grace with them againe quickly . They will confesse , they are offended with their manner of ...
... thinke they desir'd it , but they may lye for all that ; they are a little angry with their follies , now and then ; marry they come into grace with them againe quickly . They will confesse , they are offended with their manner of ...
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... thinke our men lay in ; like Ladies : it is so curious . Nothing in our Age , I have observ'd , is more pre- posterous , then the running Iudgements upon Poetry , and Poets ; when wee shall heare those things com- ` mended , and cry'd ...
... thinke our men lay in ; like Ladies : it is so curious . Nothing in our Age , I have observ'd , is more pre- posterous , then the running Iudgements upon Poetry , and Poets ; when wee shall heare those things com- ` mended , and cry'd ...
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Seite 28 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature : had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Seite 28 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 39 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather...
Seite 27 - Jonson) is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Seite 38 - But his learned and able, though unfortunate, successor is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared, or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.
Seite 10 - For to all the observations of the ancients we have our own experience, which if we will use and apply, we have better means to pronounce. It is true they opened the gates, and made the way that went before us, but as guides, not commanders: Non domini nostri, sed duces fuere.
Seite 93 - The third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation: to be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use. To make choice of one excellent man above the rest, and so to follow him till he grow very he, or so like him as the copy may be mistaken for the principal.
Seite 29 - Haterius. His wit was in his owne power; would the rule of it had beene so too. Many times hee fell into those things, could not escape laughter: As when hee said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him; Caesar thou dost me wrong. Hee replyed: Caesar did never wrong, but with just cause: and such like, which were ridiculous.
Seite 74 - Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes ; for they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win themselves a kind of gracelike newness.
Seite 36 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.