Robert Greene's Leben und Schriften: eine historisch-kritische StudieVerlag der Volksbuchhandlung, 1874 - 50 pages |
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Page 18 - I writ it ouer, and as neare as I could, followed the copy, onely in that letter I put something out, but in the whole booke not a worde in, for I protest it was all Greenes, not mine nor Maister Nashes, as some vniustly haue affirmed.
Page 26 - I had wholy betaken me to the penning of plaies (which was my continnall exercise) I was so far from calling upon God, that I sildome thought on God, but tooke such delight in swearing and blaspheming the name of God, that none could thinke otherwise of mee, than that I was the child of perdition....
Page 48 - ... to embowel the clouds in a speech of ' comparison ; thinking themselves more than initiated * in poets' immortality, if they but once get Boreas by ' the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap.
Page 35 - Aske the Queens Players, if you sold them not Orlando Furioso / for [03 twenty Nobles, and when they were in the country, sold the same Play to the Lord Admirals men for as much more.
Page 9 - Cayne ; this betrayer of him that gave his life for him inherited the portion of Judas ; this apostata perished as ill as Julian : and wilt thou, my friend, be his disciple ? Looke unto mee, ' by him perswaded to that libertie, and thou shalt finde it an infernall bondage.
Page 9 - I have felt he is a God that can punish enemies. Why should thy excellent wit, his gift, be so blinded, that thou shouldst give no glory to the giver?
Page 49 - Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers: & had it in derision, for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragicall buskins, everie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heaven with that Atheist Tamburlan, or blaspheming with the mad preest of the sonne...
Page 17 - Nevertheless, soon after, I married a gentleman's daughter of good account, with whom I lived for a while; but forasmuch as she would persuade me from my willful wickedness, after I had a child by her, I cast her off, having spent up the marriage money which I obtained by her.
Page 15 - Then left I her at six or seuen, who went into Lincolneshire, and I to London ; •where in short space I fell into favor with such as were of honorable and good calling. But heere note, that though I knew how to get a friend, yet I had not the gift or reason how to keepe a friend ; for hee that was my dearest friend, I would bee sure so to behaue my selfe towards him, that he shoulde euer after professe to bee my vtter enemie, or else vowe neuer after to come in my company.
Page 30 - With their feathers, whose beauty, if our poets had not pecked with the supply of their periwigs, they might have anticked it until this time, up and down the country with the King of Fairies, and dined every day at the pease-porridge ordinary with Delfrigus.