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. 1878 Excerpt: ...Carew etc. take part. It originates by Jonson 'vaunting himself the first and best of English Poets'. This points clearly to the fact that Massinger was engaged in these literary contentions. The above quoted Mock Romance shows that he was on the side of those opposed to Jonson. In some lines quoted by Langbaine, his ...
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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. 1878 Excerpt: ...Carew etc. take part. It originates by Jonson 'vaunting himself the first and best of English Poets'. This points clearly to the fact that Massinger was engaged in these literary contentions. The above quoted Mock Romance shows that he was on the side of those opposed to Jonson. In some lines quoted by Langbaine, his name is again associated with that of the great poet. ) Coleridge (Introduction p. XI. VIII.) complains of Gifford not mentioning the source from which he gets this Mock Romance. Gifford, when he first quotes it (Introduction, p. I. XII, note), speaks of it, as a Mock Romance, entitled Wit and Fancy in a Maze or Don Zara del Fogo. 12 mo 1656 (the knowledge of which was obligingly communicated to me by the Eev. W. Jodd.) It was also published in 1719 under the name of The Spaniard or Don Zara del Fogo'. The above mentioned scene is to be round on page 72. 'Ingenious Shakespear, Massinger that knows The strength of plot, to write in verse and prose, Whose easy Pegasus will ramble o'er Some three score miles of Fancy in an hour.' Massinger was in want from the time he went to London until towards the close of his life. In nearly all of his dedications, he expresses thanks to some one who has relieved his wants. Gifford1) has computed that the highest sum Massinger could have gained in any one year, was about fifty pounds, which, he concludes, was sufficiently for his wants if he exercised strict economy. But Gifford did not know that Massinger had a mother, several sisters, and probably a wife and children dependent upon him. Besides he could only gain this maximum when his plays were successful. Some were not.2) He was then necessarily dependent upon the chance bounty of his friends. Coleridge3) has remarked how goading the humility of having to ...
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