 | Frederic William Moorman - 1910 - 262 Seiten
...tells us, " 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." 1 Until the advent of Jonson, the attempts to fashion a lyric upon classical models had been fitful... | |
 | Frederic William Moorman - 1910 - 412 Seiten
...tells us, " 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."1 Until the advent of Jonson, the attempts to fashion a lyric upon classical models had been... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1912 - 594 Seiten
...; and says that Marston wrote his father-in-law's preachings, and his fatherin-law his comedies."2 Such are the remarks of Jonson on his contemporaries...Cardinal du Perron (when he was in France, 1613), who showed him his translation of Virgil, that it was naught : that the best pieces of Ronsard were his... | |
 | 1912 - 740 Seiten
...'He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short'; and ibid., p. 366: 'Samuel Daniel was a good honest man, . . . but no poet.' For other references to... | |
 | 1913 - 464 Seiten
...which Jonson " 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." If Ben " cursed " Petrarch, he could not very well bless his Scottish friend. for the first time with... | |
 | 1917 - 800 Seiten
...cabinet" of the sonnets, and Ben Jonson cursed Petrarch "for redacting verses to sonnets which . . . were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. "Jt Sir John Davies also inveighed against the "bastard sonnets which base rhymers daily begot to their... | |
 | 1918 - 492 Seiten
...recovered both father and son, since all that is known of the latter corresponds with these particulars. affection — would have passed the ordeal with more...Cardinal du Perron (when he was in France, 1613) who showed him his translation of Virgil, that it was naught: that the best pieces of Konsard were his... | |
 | 1919 - 320 Seiten
...Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who where too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, keept not decorum, in making Shepherds speak as well as himself could.' On this Drummond observes :... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1919 - 320 Seiten
...Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who where too short were racked, others too long cut short. That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, keept not decorum, in making Shepherds speak as well as himself could.' On this Drummond observes :... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1923 - 154 Seiten
...he cursed Petrarch for redacting Verses to Sonnets, which he said were like that Tirrants bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. that Guarini in his Pastor Fido keept not decorum in making shepherds speek as well as himself could. that Lucan taken in parts was... | |
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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,... 
