
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 4
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 4.
Context: Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the concert o'er again.
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 4
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
II, ix, 47
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
“Art is limitation…. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.