This hideous masque of painting, though destructive of all beauty, is, however, favourable to natural homeliness and deformity.
You know, that without this horrible masque no married lady is admitted at court, or in any polite assembly; and that it is a mark of distinction which no bourgeoise dare assume.
But his strictures had given offence at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria, who was minded to amuse herself with masques; consequently this famous masque came off.
On that occasion a masque of welcome had been performed for her in an avenue of elms, which thus received the name of the "Queen's Walk.
Here the voluptuous monarch visited his great rival in magnificence, and at a masquewithin these walls cast covetous eyes upon fair Anne Boleyn.
By strange coincidence this house, where Milton lived when "Comus" was first published, was but a few yards distant from the town house of the earl in whose honour the masque had been composed a dozen years or more before this.
In fact, it was themasque of a dramatic artist in repose.
I dislike this sort of conspiratorial masque Marini and his Chief indulge in.
Jonson has addressed several verses to him, and composed a Masque for the splendid entertainment which he gave to Charles I.
One of the ladies in the masque to-night has taken a liking to you; and sent you by me this purse of gold, in recompence of that she saw you lose.
VI The masque and the dance were cloud on wave, And down the masque and the dance Lord Dusiote stepped from dame to dame, And to the young princess he came, With a bow and a burning glance.
Some heights are measured down: the wary wise Shun Reason in the masque with you!
Whatever spirit it was that still held its abode behind that fresh, childlikemasque it endured altogether of its own volition and outside the sphere of those blessed, understandable things of our common life.
Suddenly the spark of life behind the monstrous masque that had been Fielding Thaneford's face had disappeared; quite as when the wind extinguishes the candle in a paper lantern.
The following catch is found in Ben Jonson's 'Masque of Oberon,' and is a most common nursery song at the present day.
Ben Jonson's Masque of Beauty; and wealth she had in the shape of immense estates.
The farther proceedings of the masque we shall describe in the words of an eye-witness, in order to win the reader's belief for things scarcely credible.
Who has not heard of the masqueat Theobalds--perhaps the most disgraceful scene that ever took place in an English court?
France, the title of the English Solomon, the masquewas intended to represent the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the wise Sovereign of the Jews.
For the entertainments of the second day of the royal visit, a masque had been prepared by the owner of the mansion; but it was unfortunately appointed to succeed a grand banquet, at which all the Court was present.
Then the masque of the Seasons swept by, and Philiscus followed, Philiscus the Corcyraean, the priest of Dionysus, and the favourite tragic poet of the court.
For the first time he was viewing Paris bereft of the glamour of romance; for the first time the Masque of Folly passed before him, licentious and unashamed.
Twas only yesterday that Jacques Aujet painted you as the Bacchante in his 'Masque of Folly.
Attempts were made to revive these Theatrical Spectacles at Court; but I have met with no Account of above one Masque acted there by the Nobility; which was that of Calisto, written by Crown, the Author of Sir Courtly Nice.
No sooner, then, came this Proposal to Wilks, but off went theMasque and out came the Secret!
Rimbault informs us that this masque was represented at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr.
The boy of fifteen quickly made friends with the stone-masons, and, getting from them a piece of marble, began to copy the antique masque of a faun.
Thus the masqueof Alfred was first performed within the walls of Cliefden, and into this masque "Rule Britannia," composed by Dr.
The date of the play may be taken as late in 1610, or early the next year, a time at which the popularity of the masque was reaching its height.
This letter was prefixed to the masque in the collected edition of the Poems (1645), but was written to the author without view to publication.
The romance also contains a masque entitled Deorum Dona, in which figure allegorical abstractions such as Fame, Fortune, and the like.
The connexion of the pastoral with the masque began very early, and may well have been more constant than we should be tempted to suppose from the isolated examples that remain.
Shepherds and nymphs constitute the personae of the masque proper, while those of the antimasque are supplied by a band of Bocotian clowns, who come to challenge the Arcadians to the dance.
Though not itself a masque in the strict sense of the word in which we have learnt to use it, the piece contains the undeveloped germs of most of the later characteristics of the kind.
It partakes of the nature of the masque in that the whole composition centres round a compliment to the Queen, Eliza or Zabeta--a name which, as Dr.
Probably the masque as it evolved itself at the court of James needed a subject possessing a traditional story, or at least fixed and known conditions of a kind which the pastoral was unable to supply.
The staging, both on this and on subsequent occasions, was no doubt answerable to the nature of the piece, and added the splendour of the masque to the classic grace of the fable.
The work is indeed a composite piece, a masque grown into a play through the accretion of foreign matter, and was probably in its original state a far simpler composition than it now appears.
As a masque proper, and from the point of view of what had come to be expected of such compositions, how does it stand?
The masque was given at the hall of the Hotel de Bourbon, where a noble gallery accommodated the audience, and left full space beneath for the actors.
Some curious instances of this fashion are recorded by Hall, particularly in his graphic account of what took place at a masque given by Henry VIII at his palace at Westminster.
A curious instance of this custom has already been alluded to in connection with what occurred during the masque given by Henry VIII at Westminster.
When Shelley was in Italy and the word came to him of the massacre at Manchester, he wrote his "Masque of Anarchy.
His "Masque on Queen Bersaba" is an old miracle play of David and Nathan.
I thank you for the masque you are giving to-night.
Here in New Orleans were jewels and costumes in a profusion of splendour; but here was preserved the underlying idea of the masque itself--that in concealment of identity lay the life of the thing!
Milton's 'Comus' is a well-known masque of high character.
Nowhere was the Masque more carefully studied and more magnificently presented than in London.
Let us show what a Masque was like by describing one of Ben Jonson's.
It is called theMasque of Oberon, and was performed before Prince Henry, the eldest son of James I.
The scenic display which in the early theatre was so meagre was carried in the Masque to a height never surpassed until the splendid shows of the present day.
The selection was but natural: he had already contributed to The Maides Tragedy a masque of the very essence of dreams, executed with singular grace and melody.
He was fond of the drama; had organized a masque at the Middle Temple at the time of the Princess Elizabeth's marriage; and it is to him that Ben Jonson dedicates the folio of The Poetaster (1616).
