| Ben Jonson - 1756 - 526 lapas
...ftiict hand Was made to feife on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humour of fuch fpongy natures, \ As lick up every idle vanity. Cor. Why, this is right furor paeticus ! Kind gentlemen, we hope your patience Will yet conceive the beft, or entertain This fuppofition,... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 lapas
...\v-ong: For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em; my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humour of such spongy natures,7 As lick up every idle vanity. Cor. Why, this is right Juror poéticas ! Kind gentlemen, we... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 lapas
...wrong, For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em: my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe, Squeeze out...of such spongy souls, As lick up every idle vanity. Prologue to Every Man out of his Humour. — S. Jonson. DCCCLXV. A wise man ought to take counsel,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 lapas
...wrong, For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em: my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe, Squeeze out the humour of such spongy souls, As lick up eveiy idle vanity. Prologue to Every Man out of his Humour.—B. Jonson. DCCCLXV. A wise man ought... | |
| 1838 - 406 lapas
...pleased t' unmask a public vice. " " My strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe, Crush out the humour of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." And this task he performed, in all its terrors ^, through the medium of amusement ; to courteous eyes... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 lapas
...; For if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em : my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out...of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." The spirit which dictated these lines was not likely to remain free from literary quarrels. Jonson... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 lapas
...; For, if he shame to have hia follies known, First he should shame to act 'em : my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out...of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity," — the poet who " was not for an age, but for all time," — he, especially, who never once comes... | |
| 1845 - 410 lapas
...; For if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em : my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out...of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." The spirit which dictated these lines was not likely to remain free from literary quarrels. Jonson... | |
| 1845 - 570 lapas
...; For if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em : my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out...of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." The spirit which dictated these lines was not likely to remain free from literary quarrels. Jonson... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 lapas
...wrong; For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em : my Uriel han J Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe, Squeeze out the humor of euch spongy soul«, As lick up every idle vanity. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark.... | |
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