 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...begins), and the moral and artistic quickening of the spirit that leads to the final resolve to "sing high and aloof, / Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof." Convincing though they are in context, these lines may also suggest that the sense of life injonson's... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof. Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. The odi profanum volgus was never more crushingly echoed. Another side of Horace important to Ben Jonson... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...indifferent to criticism he shows he is really obsessed by it. In the end he commands, Leaue me. There's something come into my thought, That must, and shall be sung, high, and aloofe, Safe from the wolues black iaw, and the dull asses hoofe. His interlocutor Nasutus creeps out... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...The New Inn was mocked off the stage. As early as Poetaster, the figure of the Author vows to "sing high and aloof, / Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof." Jonson later made those lines the conclusion of "An Ode. To Himself," in which he berates himself for... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English drama - 2000 - 582 pages
...come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace — Leave me. There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, 24° Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. NASUTUS I reverence these raptures, and... | |
 | Niall Rudd - History - 2005 - 232 pages
...To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me! There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung high and aloof. Safe from the world's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. with its pole snapped off, the flagstaff from a surrendered... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. Like Yeats three centuries later, Jonson combined in himself the time's scapegoat and its best censor.... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 784 pages
...forth with the ivy and the bays, And in this age can hope no better grace, — Leave me I There 's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and Uu dull .nn's hoof I " Accordingly, in 1603, he produced his weighty tragedy of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...To come forth worth the ivy or tho bays, And in this ago can hope no other grace Leave me ! There 's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from tho wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. The fresh strain was his tragedy of " Sejamis," produced... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 528 pages
...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage; But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. 160 HYMN TO DIANA QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
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Leave me ! There's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof \ Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. 
