John Crowne: His Life and Dramatic Works

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Western Reserve University Press, 1922 - 211 páginas
 

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Página 35 - Oedipus, and given it to the Duke's company, contrary to his said agreement, his promise, and all gratitude, to the great prejudice and almost undoing of the company, they being the only poets remaining to us. Mr. Crowne, being under the like agreement with the duke's house, writt a play called The Destruction of Jerusalem...
Página 93 - Company compelled us, after the studying of it, and a vast expence in scenes and cloathes, to buy off their clayme, by paying all the pension he had received from them, amounting to one hundred and twelve pounds paid by the King's Company, besides neere forty pounds he, the said Mr.
Página 59 - ... this revolution, which has been so happy to England, and the greatest part of Europe. Had not this change been, almost all Europe had been overrun by France ; England, for certain, had lost its rights, liberties, and religion, and perhaps been no more a kingdom, but a province to France, a vassal to vassals, and for all its wealth had nothing but a wafer. What could have stop'd that inundation of power which was rolling on, and swelling as it roll'd, delug'd many parts of Europe, and threatened...
Página 93 - CEdipus,' and given it to the Duke's Company, contrary to his said agreement, his promise, and all gratitude, to the great prejudice and almost undoing of the Company, they being the only poets remaining to us. Mr Crowne, being under the like agreement with the Duke's House, writt a play, called the ' Destruction of Jerusalem/ and being forced, by their refusal!
Página 79 - Writings soon made him known to the Court and Town: Yet it was neither to the Favour of the Court, nor of Wilmot Lord Rochester, one of the shining Ornaments of it, that he was indebted for the Nomination which the King made of him for the writing of the Mask of Calypso [ie Calistol, but to the Malice of that noble Lord, who design'd by that preference to mortify Mr. Dryden.
Página 131 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Página 103 - Tis much more hard to please himself than you : And, out of no feign'd modesty, this day Damns his laborious trifle of a play: Not that it's -worse than what before he writ, But he has now another taste of wit ; And, to confess a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-loved mistress, Rhyme.
Página 134 - And we considering, with heavy hearts, how greatly the reputation and honesty of the kingdom hath been wasted in maintaining the said garrisons ; and finding the same counsels, after exemplary justice upon some of the conspirators, to be still pursued with the utmost devilish malice and desire of revenge, whereby his Majesty is in continual hazard to be destroyed, to make way for the said rabble's advancement to the crown.
Página 104 - She had the stinking fish she sells so dear, And in this broil no shelter can be found In our poor play-house, fallen to the ground. The time's neglect, and maladies have thrown The two great pillars of our play-house down ; The two tall cedars of the vocal grove, That vented oracles of wit and love, Where many a nightingale has sweetly sung, Whose boughs with shrieks of owls too oft has rung ; But such strange charms did in their echoes lie, They gave the very owls a harmony.
Página 204 - New Englands first fruits; in respect, first of the conversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians.

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