 | Charles Lewis Stainer - 1925 - 90 lapas
...He cursed Petrarch for redactingverses to sonnets, -which he said were like that Tirrants bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. It is interesting to note that Murray's Dictionary quotes its only example of the use of the word 'redact'... | |
 | 1926 - 802 lapas
...Sonettisten übrigens) dafs er 'cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like the tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short' (D. of H., Conversations p. 4). Es ist das der ewige Vergleich des Sonetts mit dem Prokrustesbett,... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 lapas
...Drummond of Hawthornden that he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4.) Jonson was here silently appropriating a depreciatory simile, which... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 lapas
...table talk of Elizabethan playwrights to survive), claimed the sonnet was no better than Procrustes' bed — where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.1 The boyish poets of the 1590s were trying to impress each other as much as their lovers. In... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 286 lapas
...esp. 235, 242. 144 Ibid., p. 238. Wilson points out (pp. 235-6) that the metaphor of verse as Mike that Tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short', was first used in English by the Catholic Ben Jonson: see CH Herford and Percy Simpson (eds), Ben Jonson:... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - 2007 - 276 lapas
...Shakespeare wanted art. ... (1, 133) He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. (1, 133-34) Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language .... (8, 618)' It is Jonson, too,... | |
 | 1830 - 578 lapas
...because he wrote not fictions. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which, he said, were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short,...Pastor Fido, kept no decorum in making shepherds speak ae well as himself. He said Petronius, Plinius secundus, and Plautus spoke best Latin ; that Tacitus... | |
 | 1917 - 784 lapas
...cabinet" of the sonnets, and Ben Jonson cursed Petrarch "for redacting verses to sonnets which . . . were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short, "ff Sir John Davies also inveighed against the "bastard sonnets which base rhymers daily begot to their... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1915 - 848 lapas
...Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who .were too short were racked, others ^o long cut short ' {Jonson's Conversatuma, p. 4). protests from the most respected writers of the... | |
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His judgment of stranger poets was, that he thought not Bartas a poet, but a verser, because he wrote not fiction. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked,... 
