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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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noun

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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V.

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Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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h Mr. Beaumont. (Written presently after^his Death.) Beaumont lies here; and where now shall we haveA muse like his to sigh upon his grave ? * This short copy (which seems wrote with a sincerity not common in complimentarypoems) treats Beaumont not only as an excellent critic, but as an excellent poet; and is ananswer to Beaumont's letter to Jonson. Seward. ' The J. F. here is undoubtedly John Fletcher, and the ode, though not immediatelyrelating to the plays, is inserted here, first, for its intrinsic merit; and, secondly,'as it will bepleasing to find tnat Fletcher's muse was animated with friendship as well as Beaumont's ;a circumstance, which, till I saw this ode, seemed wanting to complete the amiable unionwhich reigned between them. In the third stanza, the reader will see an authority for Mil*Khi*s use of the word rime for verse in general, •• Things unattempted yet in prose or rime.** Which Dr Bentley so injudiciously altered to prose and verse. That Beaumont wrotesomething in the C^vidian manner seems evident from these lines; but the Hermaphroditewhich is printed as his, and supposed to be the thing referred to in this ode, is claimed byCleaveland as a conjunct performance between himself and Randolph. Seward.
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