The Works of Ben Ionson

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Bickers and son, 1875
 

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401 ページ - From a fiddle out of tune, As the cuckow is in June.] The dissonant note of the cuckow in this month, is thus alluded to by Shakspeare: " So when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckow is in June, Heard, not regarded.
39 ページ - a candidate to her for the borough of Appleby. " I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court; but I will not be dictated to by a subject: your man shan't stand. "ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
111 ページ - 3 Charm. The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad, And so is the cat-a-mountain, The ant and the mole sit both in a hole, And the frog peeps out o' the fountain ; The dogs they do bay, and the timbrels play, The spindle is now a
365 ページ - SONG. Pat To the old, long life and treasure ; To the young, all health and pleasure ; To the fair, their face With eternal grace ; And the soul to be loved at leisure. To the witty, all clear mirrors, To the foolish their dark errors ; To the loving sprite, A secure delight : To the jealous his
268 ページ - then, is a Christmas gambol, at which I have often played. A log of wood is brought into the midst of the room : this is Dun, (the cart-horse,) and a cry is raised, that he is stuck in the mire. Two of the company advance, either with or without ropes, to draw him out.
436 ページ - the preceding extracts may serve to show the poetical fancy and elegance of mind of the supposed rugged old bard. A thousand beautiful passages might be adduced from those numerous court masques and entertainments, which he was in the daily habit of furnishing, to prove the same thing. But they do not come within my plan.
441 ページ - See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes
108 ページ - His majesty, then, being set, and the whole company in full expectation, the part of the scene which first presented itself was an ugly Hell; which flaming beneath, smoked unto the top of the roof. And in respect all evils are morally said to come from hell; as also from that observation of Torrentius upon Horace's
8 ページ - On sides of the shell did swim six huge sea-monsters, varied in their shapes and dispositions, bearing on their backs the twelve torch-bearers, who were planted there in several graces; so as the backs of some were seen; some in purfle, or side; others in face; and all having their lights burning out of whelks, or murex-shells.
444 ページ - I care not for thee, Kate; this is no world To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips ; We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

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