Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3.cBooks Group
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 146 pages
Published Date: 14 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231289044
File Name: Lives.of.the.Most.Eminent.Literary.and.Scientific.Men.of.Great.Britain,.2.Volume.3.pdf
Download Link: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...insulted the helpless, that he had ever derided the most awful affliction of our nature. One good resulted from this failure of his piece; the king, touched by his necessities, sent him one hundred pounds. Charles did more: he raised the pension from one hundred marks to one hundred pounds, and added a tierce of canary. This was princely, but it did not release Jonson from his difficulties. He no longer received the handsome gratuities from the court, or from the nobles, or from the city companies. As his fame was declining; Inigo Jones, formerly his friend, now his enemy, was thought to have greater talent for pageants; he fell, neglected, into comparative oblivion. We hear of him only from his applications to the great for pecuniary relief. The pension, with the wine, was surely enough to support him; but he was always a stranger to worldly prudence: "what was liberally given," says Gifford, "he lavishly spent, and he was seldom free from want." Even now, that he was excluded from so many sources of profit--that he was not wanted to compose masques and pageants for court, nobility, or city companies--he lived as expensively as in his most prosperous days. Melancholy as was now the situation of Jonson, --one of sickness and poverty, --it was the more incumbent to exercise his talents, impaired as they were. Though he had no longer any hope from the stage, he did not wholly forsake it. In 1()32 he produced at the Blackfriars his comedy of The Magnetic Ladg. It was somewhat coldly received. It could not be otherwise; for though it is not without some merit, it will not bear comparison with even the second rate of his former dramas. His muse, as he truly observes, was "bedridden and afflicted." The following year appeared the last ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3.cBooks Group
Author: Books Group
Page Count: 146 pages
Published Date: 14 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231289044
File Name: Lives.of.the.Most.Eminent.Literary.and.Scientific.Men.of.Great.Britain,.2.Volume.3.pdf
Download Link: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...insulted the helpless, that he had ever derided the most awful affliction of our nature. One good resulted from this failure of his piece; the king, touched by his necessities, sent him one hundred pounds. Charles did more: he raised the pension from one hundred marks to one hundred pounds, and added a tierce of canary. This was princely, but it did not release Jonson from his difficulties. He no longer received the handsome gratuities from the court, or from the nobles, or from the city companies. As his fame was declining; Inigo Jones, formerly his friend, now his enemy, was thought to have greater talent for pageants; he fell, neglected, into comparative oblivion. We hear of him only from his applications to the great for pecuniary relief. The pension, with the wine, was surely enough to support him; but he was always a stranger to worldly prudence: "what was liberally given," says Gifford, "he lavishly spent, and he was seldom free from want." Even now, that he was excluded from so many sources of profit--that he was not wanted to compose masques and pageants for court, nobility, or city companies--he lived as expensively as in his most prosperous days. Melancholy as was now the situation of Jonson, --one of sickness and poverty, --it was the more incumbent to exercise his talents, impaired as they were. Though he had no longer any hope from the stage, he did not wholly forsake it. In 1()32 he produced at the Blackfriars his comedy of The Magnetic Ladg. It was somewhat coldly received. It could not be otherwise; for though it is not without some merit, it will not bear comparison with even the second rate of his former dramas. His muse, as he truly observes, was "bedridden and afflicted." The following year appeared the last ...
Read online Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3 Buy Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3 Download Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, 2 Volume 3