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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Strana ix
... hath run his traine , and show'n His subtill body , where he best was knowne ; In both Minerua's Cittyes . J. Payne Collier mentions a presentation at Whitehall , 1623-4 , and refers to the diary of Sir H. Mildmay : ' Under the date of ...
... hath run his traine , and show'n His subtill body , where he best was knowne ; In both Minerua's Cittyes . J. Payne Collier mentions a presentation at Whitehall , 1623-4 , and refers to the diary of Sir H. Mildmay : ' Under the date of ...
Strana xi
... from eight- eenth - century writers ; the first is from Rev. Thomas Francklin's translation of Lucian , Vol . 1 , p . 237 , on the third dialogue : The practice of legacy - hunting hath been a fruitful Sources xi SOURCES.
... from eight- eenth - century writers ; the first is from Rev. Thomas Francklin's translation of Lucian , Vol . 1 , p . 237 , on the third dialogue : The practice of legacy - hunting hath been a fruitful Sources xi SOURCES.
Strana xii
... hath been a fruitful and inexhaustible object of ridicule and satire amongst wits , both ancient and modern , from the days of Lucian to those of Ben Jonson , who has , perhaps , treated it more fully and comprehen- sively than any of ...
... hath been a fruitful and inexhaustible object of ridicule and satire amongst wits , both ancient and modern , from the days of Lucian to those of Ben Jonson , who has , perhaps , treated it more fully and comprehen- sively than any of ...
Strana xxii
... Courtier , p . 235 ( ed . 1900 ) , may be of interest : And I again remember ( quoth he ) that I haue read an Ora- tion , wherein an unfortunate husband asketh leaue of the Senate to die , and alleageth that he hath a xxii Introduction.
... Courtier , p . 235 ( ed . 1900 ) , may be of interest : And I again remember ( quoth he ) that I haue read an Ora- tion , wherein an unfortunate husband asketh leaue of the Senate to die , and alleageth that he hath a xxii Introduction.
Strana xxiii
... hath a just cause , for that he can not abide the continuall weerisomeness of his wives chattinge , and had leiffer drinke of that poison which you say was laied openly for these respectes , then of his wives scold- inges . The story of ...
... hath a just cause , for that he can not abide the continuall weerisomeness of his wives chattinge , and had leiffer drinke of that poison which you say was laied openly for these respectes , then of his wives scold- inges . The story of ...
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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...