Victoria: a Latin comedy

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A. Uystpruyst, 1906 - 130 sider

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Side 117 - Hie jacet in Tumba, Rosa Mundi non Rosa Munda. Non redolet, sed olet, quae redolere solet.
Side xxxvii - There is good Harpalus, now woxen aged In faithful service of faire Cynthia : And there is Corydon though meanly waged, Yet hablest wit of most I know this day.
Side xxxvii - Louers of the Muses : and namely to the professed Sonnes of the same, Edmond Spencer, Richard Stanihurst, Abraham...
Side xxv - Law is most fit to expresse the praecepts of Logike. Yet, because many loue Logike, that neuer learne Lawe, I haue reteyned those ould examples of the new Shepheards Kalender, which I first gathered, and therevnto added thease also out of our Law bookes, which I lately collected . . . (sig.
Side 98 - For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
Side xviii - There is a ground, newe made theator wise, Both deepe and hye, in goodly auncient guise: Where well may sit, ten thousand men at ease, And yet the one, the other not displease. A space below, to bayt both bull and beare, For players too, great roume and place at will.
Side xvi - Everie thursdaie the Schollers of the first forme before they goo to plaie, shall for exercise declame and plaie one acte of a comedie...
Side 126 - Have I not made the sea to groan under the number of my ships ; and have they not perished, that there was not two left to make a number ? Have...
Side 115 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Side 111 - Poesie an art not only of making, but also of imitation. And this science in his perfection can not grow but by some diuine instinct — the Platonicks call it furor; or by excellencie of nature and complexion; or by great subtiltie of the spirits & wit; or by much experience and obseruation of the world, and course of kinde; or, peraduenture, by all or most part of them.

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