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

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With most deUcious poison?' —

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Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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• Both parts belong to him." No editor of Shakespeare mentions this. For BROAD-fronted Caesar he would substitute BALD-frontcd, This Steevens notices. Mr. Seward also reprobates Hanmer's alteration ((f arm-^dunt to arm-girt; ** 1 suppose(says he) he meant with arms or shoulders bound round with trappings. The expression isYcry stiff in this sense, and justly rejected by Mr. Warburton, who restores arm-gaunt, andex|Mains it of a war-horse grown gaunt or lean by lon^ marches and frequent fights. But whyroust Antony, after a profound peace and a long revel m tlie arms of Cleopatra, upon hU returnto Rome, have nothing to ride but an old battered lean war-horse? Besides, lean horses areseldom remarkable like this for neighing loud and vigorously. By arm we all understand thdthotUder, in Latin, Armus; gaunt is lean or thin. It is common for poets to mention themost distinguished beauty of any thing to express beauty in general, by rt/necdoche a part iaput for the whole: Arm^gaunt therefore signifies thin-shouldered, which we know to be oneof the principal beauties of a horse, and the epithet has, from the uncommon uac of oitherpart of the compound word in this sense, an antique dignity and grandeur in sound that poetsmuch delight in.*' Edwards tneers at this 3 but surely Mr, Seward's argument is judidous '] VOL. I- ^ That lii COMMENDATORY POEMS. Such as must spend above an hour, to spellA challenge on a post, to know it well.
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