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Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.

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Ben Jonson·1572–1637
11} “So live with yourself that you do not know how ill yow mind isfurnished.” {12} Αυτοδίδακτος {14} “A Puritan is a Heretical Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his ownperspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certainerrors in a few Church dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, sothat, excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights frenzied againstcivil authority, in the belief that he so pays obedience to God.” {17a} Night gives counsel. {17b} Plutarch in Life of Alexander. “Let it not be, O King, that youknow these things better than I.” {19a} “They were not our lords, but our leaders.” {19b} “Much of it is left also for those who shall be hereafter.” {19c} “No art is discovered at once and absolutely.” {22} With a great belly. Comes de Schortenhien. {23} “In all things I have a better wit and courage than good fortune.” {24a} “The rich soil exhausts; but labour itself is an aid.” {24b} “And the gesticulation is vile.” {25a} “An end is to be looked for in every man, an animal most prompt tochange.” {25b} Arts are not shared among heirs. {31a} “More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but littlewisdom.”—_Sallust_. {31b} Repeated in the following Latin. “The best treasure is in thatman’s tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a fewwords.”—_Hesiod_. {31c} _Vid._ Zeuxidis pict. Serm. ad Megabizum.—_Plutarch_. {32a} “While the unlearned is silent he may be accounted wise, for hehas covered by his silence the diseases of his mind.” {32b} Taciturnity. {33a} “Hold your tongue above all things, after the example of thegods.”—_See_ Apuleius. {33b} “Press down the lip with the finger.”—Juvenal. {33c} Plautus. {33d} Trinummus, Act 2, Scen. 4. {34a} “It was the lodging of calamity.”—Mart. lib. 1, ep. 85. {41} [“Ficta omnia celeriter tanquam flosculi decidunt, nec simulatumpotest quidquam esse diuturnum.”—Cicero.] {44a} Let a Punic sponge go with the book.—Mart. 1. iv. epig. 10. {47a} He had to be repressed. {49a} A wit-stand. {49b} Martial. lib. xi. epig. 91. That fall over the rough ways andhigh rocks. {59a} Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry Earl of Surrey. SirThomas Chaloner. Sir Thomas Smith. Sir Thomas Eliot. Bishop Gardiner.Sir Nicolas Bacon, L.K. Sir Philip Sidney. Master Richard Hooker.Robert Earl of Essex. Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Henry Savile. Sir EdwinSandys. Sir Thomas Egerton, L.C. Sir Francis Bacon, L.C. {62a} “Which will secure a long age for the known writer.”—Horat. _deArt. Poetica_. {66a} They have poison for their food, even for their dainty. {74a} Haud infima ars in principe, ubi lenitas, ubi severitas—pluspolleat in commune bonum callere. {74b} _i.e._, Machiavell. {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. AngeloBuonarotti. 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 theheavens.—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 conqueringGreeks.”—_Virg. Æn._ lib. 3. {136b} “You buy everything, Castor; the time will come when you willsell 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, theMuses would weep for the poet Nævius; since he is handed to the chamberof Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.” {148a} “No one has judged poets less happily than he who wrote aboutthem.”—_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 highrocks.”—_Martial_, lib. xi. epig. 91.