From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with... Caxton (1422) to Walton (1593) - Page 163by Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907Full view - About this book
| Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 354 pages
...have, in deference to the received opinion, admitted it into the present collection. THE PROLOGUE. FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : Threatening... | |
| John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 pages
...Marlow uses in his short prologue, to the first part of Tamburlaine the Great, are important. ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, . ' And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...pretensions was come to rescue the stage from the dominion of feebleness and buffoonery : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threat'ning... | |
| Ludwig Tieck - 1848 - 428 pages
...(ber mфt öiel länger alé jener ifí, über пзе1феп Camlet fpottet) fagt ÜÄarlo»:*) From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you etc. *) aBie SDtarloro jiemticf) lange bei ben (ïnglanbern fa(l ocr= gejfen roar, fo... | |
| 1870 - 770 pages
...act five, that comedy has store of mirth more vital, deeper, happier, more human than springs from " Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay " — these were discoveries in art made by Shakspeare ; and is it too much to suppose that but for... | |
| 1870 - 764 pages
...act five, that comedy has store of mirth more vital, deeper, happier, more human than springs from " Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay " — these were discoveries in art made by Shakspeare ; and is it too much to suppose that but for... | |
| Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...for the public were in prose or rhyme, till the Prologue of Tamburlaine said to the people : " From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay. We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threaten the... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 822 pages
...The first part is introduced to the reader by a prologue in which Marlowe displays his contempt for the "jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, and such conceits as clownage keeps in pay," and he goes on to promise a very different class of entertainment from that which these same poor wits... | |
| Henry Allon - 1875 - 646 pages
...year, his ' Tamburlaine the Great' upon the stage, saying, in his prologue to that play — ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother- wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you,' &c. iBut the unmerited abuse of envious rivals excites, as a reaction, the pleasing... | |
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