The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir, Volumen 5G. and W. Nicol, 1816 |
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... father . • And take his Almain - leap into a custard . ] In the earlier days , when the City kept a fool , it was customary for him , at public entertainments , to leap into a large bowl of custard set on purpose : there is an allusion ...
... father . • And take his Almain - leap into a custard . ] In the earlier days , when the City kept a fool , it was customary for him , at public entertainments , to leap into a large bowl of custard set on purpose : there is an allusion ...
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... father , never taught you These pleasant matches . Wit . No , nor can his mirth , With whom I make them , put me off . Fitz . You are Resolved then ? Wit . Yes , sir . Fitz . Beauty is the saint , You'll sacrifice your self into the ...
... father , never taught you These pleasant matches . Wit . No , nor can his mirth , With whom I make them , put me off . Fitz . You are Resolved then ? Wit . Yes , sir . Fitz . Beauty is the saint , You'll sacrifice your self into the ...
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... father , you trust too much . Gilt . Boy , boy , We live by finding fools out to be trusted . Our shop books are our pastures , our corn - grounds , We lay ' em open , for them to come into ; And when we have them there , we drive them ...
... father , you trust too much . Gilt . Boy , boy , We live by finding fools out to be trusted . Our shop books are our pastures , our corn - grounds , We lay ' em open , for them to come into ; And when we have them there , we drive them ...
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... father . In a descent or two , we come to be , Just in their state , fit to be cozen'd , like them : And I had rather have tarried in your trade . For , since the gentry scorn the city so much , Methinks we should in time , holding ...
... father . In a descent or two , we come to be , Just in their state , fit to be cozen'd , like them : And I had rather have tarried in your trade . For , since the gentry scorn the city so much , Methinks we should in time , holding ...
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... Father , dear father , trust him if you love me . Gilt . Why , I do mean it , boy , but what I do Must not come easily from me : we must deal With courtiers , boy , as courtiers deal with us . If I have a business there with any of them ...
... Father , dear father , trust him if you love me . Gilt . Why , I do mean it , boy , but what I do Must not come easily from me : we must deal With courtiers , boy , as courtiers deal with us . If I have a business there with any of them ...
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Página 162 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 66 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she! From...
Página 65 - Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth. Do but look on her hair, it is bright As Love's star when it riseth. Do but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her.
Página 440 - Run on and rage, sweat, censure, and condemn ; They were not made for thee, less thou for them. Say that thou pour'st them wheat, And they will acorns eat ; 'Twere simple fury still thyself to waste On such as have no taste...
Página 135 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
Página 350 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness?
Página 66 - Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier ? Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! n.
Página 197 - Mirth leads us to suppose that it was a very common termination of the adventures of the Vice for him to be carried off to hell on the back of the devil : ' he would carry away the Vice on his back, quick to hell, in every play where he came.
Página 409 - WHAI™ Lov. A meditation, Or rather a vision, madam, and of beauty, Our former subject. Lady F. Pray you let us hear it, Lov. // was a beauty that I saw So pure, so perfect, as the frame Of all the universe was lame, To that one figure, could I draw, Or give least line of 'it a law ! A skein of silk without a knot, A fair march made without a halt, A curious form without a fault, A printed book without a blot, All beauty, and without a spot ! Lady F.
Página 58 - Thirdly, plays have made the ignorant more apprehensive,* taught the unlearned the knowledge of many famous histories, instructed such as cannot read in the discovery* of all our English chronicles; and what man have you now of that weak capacity that cannot discourse of any notable thing recorded even from William the Conqueror, nay, from the landing of Brute, until this day...