 To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed, Past three-score years ; or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house...  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Page 159by John Dryden - 1922 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1889 - 296 pages
...customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate As, for it, he himself must justly hate : To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars ; He rather prays you will be pleased to see, One such... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...appeal. It suffered the poet to transport it over wide intervals of space and time, and " with aid of some few foot and half-foot words, fight over York and Lancaster's long jars." Pedantry undertook, even at the very beginnings of the Elizabethan drama, to shackle it with the so-called... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 pages
...purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate : To make a child new swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one...words, Fight over York, and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate : To make a child new swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one...words, Fight over York, and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scare. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pages
...appeal. It suffered the poet to transport it over wide intervals of space and time, and " with aid of some few foot and half-foot words, fight over York and Lancaster's long jars." Pedantry undertook, even at the very beginnings of the Elizabethan drama, to shackle it with the so-called... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 494 pages
...customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate : To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-housc bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 pages
...educate it. PROLOGUE. Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate: ' To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1897 - 356 pages
...patronage, favor, or assistance from Shakespeare." — Gi/brtft Preface to Jonson's Works, p. ccli. To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars." That two of the historical plays of " Shake-speare... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1896 - 178 pages
...customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate : To make a child now swaddled; to proceed Man, and...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1967 - 260 pages
...bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field ? From Jonson in 1 598 : with three rusty swordS) And help of some few foot...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring-house bring wounds to scars. (Every Man in His Humour, Prologue, 9-12) Shakespeare... | |
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