This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Detraction's spite. Know that the Genius, which attendeth on And guides my powers intellectual, Holds in all vile repute Detraction; My soul an essence metaphysical, That in the basest sort scorns critics' rage Because he knows his sacred parentage (Scourge of Villainy, "To Detraction," etc.). O age, when every ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Detraction's spite. Know that the Genius, which attendeth on And guides my powers intellectual, Holds in all vile repute Detraction; My soul an essence metaphysical, That in the basest sort scorns critics' rage Because he knows his sacred parentage (Scourge of Villainy, "To Detraction," etc.). O age, when every Scriveners boy shall dippe Profaning quills into Thessaliaes spring (Hisiriomastix, III, 1l. 197 f. Assigned to Marston). 1. But, ye diviner wits, celestial souls, Whose free-born minds no kennelthought controlls, Ye sacred spirits, Maia's eldest sons--2. Ye substance of the shadows of our age, And come to feed their understanding parts: For these I'll prodigally spend myself, And speak away my spirit into air; For these I'll melt my brain into invention, Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words As polished jewels in their bounteous ears. In whom all graces link in marriage, To you how cheerfully my poem runs! 3. True-judging eyes, quick-sighted censurers, Heaven's best beauties, wisdom's treasurers, O how my love embraceth your great worth! (Scourge of Vil-lainy, In Lectores, etc., n. si a.). I may repeat here that to my mind the hostility between Jonson and Marston may often have been overstressed. The connection of the two men which resulted in the literary partnership of Eastward Hoe probably began early. Jonson, Chapman, and Marston shared very similar impulses and carried on very similar studies, perhaps exchanging ideas and ideals in social intercourse. Certainly both Marston and Chapman seem to have given Jonson suggestions for Every Man out. Jonson and Marston, however, were just the men to quarrel frequently, in spite of all bonds of fellowship. Jonson's statement to Drummond that he had many quarrels with Marston seems to me ...
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