Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some PoemsJonson, Ben
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Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Jonson, Ben
Commonplace books; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Miscellanea
{81a} “Censure pardons the crows and vexes the doves.”—Juvenal.
{81b} “Does not spread his net for the hawk or the kite.”—Plautus.
{93} Parrhasius. Eupompus. Socrates. Parrhasius. Clito. Polygnotus.
Aglaophon. Zeuxis. Parrhasius. Raphael de Urbino. Mich. Angelo
Buonarotti. Titian. Antony de Correg. Sebast. de Venet. Julio Romano.
Andrea Sartorio.
{94} Plin. lib. 35. c. 2, 5, 6, and 7. Vitruv. lib. 8 and 7.
{95} Horat. in “Arte Poet.”
{106a} Livy, Sallust, Sidney, Donne, Gower, Chaucer, Spenser, Virgil,
Ennius, Homer, Quintilian, Plautus, Terence.
{110a} The interpreter of gods and men.
{111a} Julius Cæsar. Of words, _see_ Hor. “De Art. Poet.;” Quintil. 1.
8, “Ludov. Vives,” pp. 6 and 7.
{111b} A prudent man conveys nothing rashly.
{114a} That jolt as they fall over the rough places and the rocks.
{116a} Directness enlightens, obliquity and circumlocution darken.
{117a} Ocean trembles as if indignant that you quit the land.
{117b} You might believe that the uprooted Cyclades were floating in.
{118a} Those armies of the people of Rome that might break through the
heavens.—Cæsar. Comment. circa fin.
{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he apprehends wisely.
{133a} “Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured.”
{133b} “Gnaw tender little ears with biting truth.”—_Per Sat._ 1.
{133c} “The wish for remedy is always truer than the hope.”—_Livius_.
{136a} “Æneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering
Greeks.”—_Virg. Æn._ lib. 3.
{136b} “You buy everything, Castor; the time will come when you will
sell everything.”—_Martial_, lib. 8, epig. 19.
{136c} “Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor.”
{136d} “Which is evident in every first song.”
{139a} “There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from heavenly realms.”
{146a} “If it were allowable for immortals to weep for mortals, the
Muses would weep for the poet Nævius; since he is handed to the chamber
of Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.”
{148a} “No one has judged poets less happily than he who wrote about
them.”—_Senec. de Brev. Vit_, cap. 13, et epist. 88.
{149a} Heins, de Sat. 265.
{149b} Pag. 267.
{149c} Pag. 270. 271.
{149d} Pag. 273, _et seq._
{149e} Pag. in comm. 153, _et seq._
{160a} “And which jolt as they fall over the rough uneven road and high
rocks.”—_Martial_, lib. xi. epig. 91.
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