 His judgment of stranger poets was, that he thought not Bartas a poet, but a verser, because he wrote not fiction. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked,...  The Works of Ben Jonson - Seite cxxvvon Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1881 - 492 Seiten
...backwards. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verse» lo sonnets ; which hi' said were like that Firram's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long rut short. Ben Jonton't Coni'ei'witit,ne, p. 4. REDAR, (»•) An adviser j one who advises, or explains.... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 218 Seiten
...grand Spenserian stanza, and ' cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.' These criticisms, together with slashing observations on Italian and French poets, which roused Drummond... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1888 - 232 Seiten
...grand Spenserian stanza, and ' cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.' These criticisms, together with slashing observations on Italian and French poets, which roused Drummond... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1888 - 632 Seiten
...writing : " he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short." Those critics who will not admit that Jonson sneered at Shakespeare, have a difficult point to deal... | |
 | Thomas Campion - 1889 - 450 Seiten
...quaerat," &c. i Ben Jonson remembered this passage when, in conversation with Drummond of Hawthornden, " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets,...too short were racked, others too long cut short." Italians, Frenchmen and Spaniards, that with commendation have written in rime, were demanded whether... | |
 | Thomas Campion - 1889 - 446 Seiten
...quaerat, " &c. i Ben Jonson remembered this passage when, in conversation with Drummond of Hawthornden, " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets,...too short were racked, others too long cut short. " Italians, Frenchmen and Spaniards, that with commendation have written in rime, were demanded whether... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 Seiten
...Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short' (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4). or parodies of the conventional efforts. 1 Even Shakespeare does not... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 Seiten
...Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short' (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4). or parodies of the conventional efforts.1 Even Shakespeare does not... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 536 Seiten
...Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short ' (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4). or parodies of the conventional efforts.1 Even Shakespeare does not... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 Seiten
...that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's lied, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short' (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4). or parodies of the conventional efforts.1 Even Shakespeare does not... | |
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