Menaphon: Camila's Alarm to Slumbering Euphues in His Melancholy Cell at Silexedra, &c

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A. Constable and Company, 1895 - 92 pages
 

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Page 14 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 22 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.
Page 16 - A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.
Page 14 - Since the time of PLATO there had been no composition given to the world which, for imagination, for philosophical discrimination, for a familiarity with the principles of government, for a knowledge of the springs of human action, for a keen observation of men and manners, and for felicity of expression, could be compared to the Utopia.
Page 9 - The sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance be drie, and Seneca let bloud line by line, and page by page, at length must needes die to our stage...
Page 9 - Seneca let bloud line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our stage ; which makes his famisht followers to imitate the Kidde in...
Page 6 - I cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their ideot Art-masters, that intrude themselues to our eares as the Alcumists of eloquence, who (mounted on the stage of arrogance) think to out-braue better pennes with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse.
Page 17 - Earle ^/SURREY, and other. With 39 additional Poems from the second edition by the same printer, RICHARD TOTTEL, of 31 July, 1557. This celebrated Collection is the First of our Poetical Miscellanies, and. also the first appearance in print of any considerable number of English Sonnets. TOTTEL in his Address to the Reader, says I — "That to haue wel written in verse.
Page 27 - COCHL^EUS could neither obtain a sight of the Translators, nor a sheet of the impression. TINDALE and ROY fled with the printed sheets up the Rhine to Worms ; and there completing this edition, produced also another in 8vo, without glosses. Both editions were probably in England by March 1526. Of the six thousand copies of which they together were composed, there remain but this fragment of the First commenced edition, in 410 ; and of the Second Edition, in 8vo, one complete copy in the Library of...

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