Volpone: Or, The FoxYale University Press, 1919 - Počet stran: 254 This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed. |
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... Juvenal ; but Juvenal has merely fur- nished some few touches added to the character , after Jonson's usual custom ; the notes to the scenes in which she appears indicate these borrowings . The real source of the character is the ...
... Juvenal ; but Juvenal has merely fur- nished some few touches added to the character , after Jonson's usual custom ; the notes to the scenes in which she appears indicate these borrowings . The real source of the character is the ...
Strana xxvi
... Juvenal , Quin- tilian , and the Latin comedians . Surprisingly seldom does Jonson show a knowledge of Greek writers obtained from the Greek itself . This would be confirmed by the list of writers recommended to Drummond in the ...
... Juvenal , Quin- tilian , and the Latin comedians . Surprisingly seldom does Jonson show a knowledge of Greek writers obtained from the Greek itself . This would be confirmed by the list of writers recommended to Drummond in the ...
Strana 151
... Juvenal and Persius : ' There is more of salt in all your verses than I have seen in any of the moderns or even of the ancients ; but you have been sparing of the gall , by which means you have pleased all readers and offended none ...
... Juvenal and Persius : ' There is more of salt in all your verses than I have seen in any of the moderns or even of the ancients ; but you have been sparing of the gall , by which means you have pleased all readers and offended none ...
Strana 171
... Juvenal 10 . 236-238 : Nam codice sævo Heredes vetat esse suos , bona tota feruntur Ad Phialen ; tantum artificis valet halitus oris . 1.5.37 Nothing bequeath'd them , but to crie , and curse . " This is from Horace's Satyre above ...
... Juvenal 10 . 236-238 : Nam codice sævo Heredes vetat esse suos , bona tota feruntur Ad Phialen ; tantum artificis valet halitus oris . 1.5.37 Nothing bequeath'd them , but to crie , and curse . " This is from Horace's Satyre above ...
Strana 172
... Juvenal 192-193 : Deformem pro cute pellem Pendentesque genas . 1.5.59 nay , helpe , sir . ' Help me to rail , and abuse Volp So the passage is to be understood in the Alchymist , Act I. S DOL . Your Sol , and Luna - Help me . and in ...
... Juvenal 192-193 : Deformem pro cute pellem Pendentesque genas . 1.5.59 nay , helpe , sir . ' Help me to rail , and abuse Volp So the passage is to be understood in the Alchymist , Act I. S DOL . Your Sol , and Luna - Help me . and in ...
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Strana 173 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Strana 214 - Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin. Some bee had stung it newly; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Strana xxix - And howsoever some may squeamishly cry out, that all endeavour of learning and sharpness in these transitory devices, especially where it steps beyond their little, or (let me not wrong them,) no brain at all, is superfluous ; I am contented, these fastidious stomachs should leave my full tables, and enjoy at home their clean empty trenchers, fittest for such airy tastes ; where perhaps a few Italian herbs, picked up and made into a sallad, may find sweeter acceptance than all the most nourishing...
Strana xxv - Upon their actions : and that this was one I make no scruple.— But the holy synod Have been in prayer and meditation for it; And 'tis reveal'd no less to them than me, That casting of money is most lawful.
Strana 252 - XVII. The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. CHARLES M. HATHAWAY, JR., Ph.D. $2.50. Cloth, $3.00.
Strana 251 - A Guide to the Middle English Metrical Romances dealing with English and Germanic Legends, and with the Cycles of Charlemagne and of Arthur. ANNA HUNT BILLINGS, Ph.D.
Strana 7 - I take him, is no subject for pride and ignorance to exercise their railing rhetoric upon. But it will here be hastily answered, that the writers of these days are other things; that not only their manners, but their natures, are inverted, and nothing remaining...
Strana 199 - That he thought not Bartas a Poet, but a Verser, because he wrote not fiction. " He cursed 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.
Strana 216 - Beneficia eo usque laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur.
Strana 89 - A rat had gnawn my spur-leathers; notwithstanding, I put on new, and did go forth: but first I threw three beans over the threshold. Item, I went and bought two tooth-picks, whereof one I burst immediately, in a discourse With a Dutch merchant, 'bout ragion...