Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... devotion, were extremely slender, may be collected from other expenses of this Priory. In the same year, the Prior gives only sixpence for a sermon, to a doctor prcedicans, or an itinerant doctor in theology of one of the mendicant orders, who went about preaching to the Religious Houses. WARTON. SANAZARIUS wrote the following beautiful lines on the City of Venice, for which he was rewarded with six thousand gold crowns: -- "Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in undis Stare urbcm, et toti ponere jura iuari, Nunc mini Tarpeias quantum vis Jupiter arces Objice et alta tui mcenia Martia ait. Si Pelago Tibrim prefers, urbem aspice utramque, Illam homines dices, hanc posuisse Deos." TRANSLATION. "When Ocean's powerful god saw Venice stand In its vast gulph, and all the sea command, Now, Jove, oppose to me, ' he, proud, exclaim'd, * Thy towers, and Mars's walls, in story fam'd; If thou prefer thy Tiber to the Main, A faithful survey for each city gain: Rome, you must own, that feeble mortals made, Whilst Venice shows the God's almighty aid." MILTON'S "COMUS," AND CAMPION'S "MEMORABLE MASK." The mask of " Comus" was composed to celebrate the creation of Charles I. as Prince of Wales. A scene in this mask presented both the castle and town of Ludlow; which proves, that although our small public theatres had not exhibited any of the scenical illusions which, long afterwards, Sir William D'Avenant introduced, these scenical effects existed, in great perfection, in the masks. The minute description introduced by Thomas Campion in his "Memorable Mask," as it is called, will convince us, that the scenery must have been exquisite and fanciful; and that the poet was always a watchful and anxious partner with the mechanist, with whom he sometimes, ..."
