Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1835 |
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... never have written , that forms the objection so often repeated to the promiscuous reading of Fletcher , Massinger , and some others . The kind of extracts which I have sought after have been , not so much passages of wit and humour ...
... never have written , that forms the objection so often repeated to the promiscuous reading of Fletcher , Massinger , and some others . The kind of extracts which I have sought after have been , not so much passages of wit and humour ...
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... Never to make return ? is all the world Drowned in blood , and sunk in cruelty ? If not in women mercy may be found , If not ( alas ) within the mother's breast To her own child , to her own flesh and blood ; If ruth be banisht thence ...
... Never to make return ? is all the world Drowned in blood , and sunk in cruelty ? If not in women mercy may be found , If not ( alas ) within the mother's breast To her own child , to her own flesh and blood ; If ruth be banisht thence ...
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... never part from me , -wherewith abraid * A deep fetch'd sigh he gave , and therewithal Clasping his hands , to heaven he cast his sight ; And streight , pale death pressing within his face , The flying ghost his mortal corps forsook ...
... never part from me , -wherewith abraid * A deep fetch'd sigh he gave , and therewithal Clasping his hands , to heaven he cast his sight ; And streight , pale death pressing within his face , The flying ghost his mortal corps forsook ...
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... never believed that it was anything more than a pleasant burlesque of Mine Ancient's . But I assure my readers that it is soberly set down in a Play which their Ancestors took to be serious . I have subjoined the genuine speech for ...
... never believed that it was anything more than a pleasant burlesque of Mine Ancient's . But I assure my readers that it is soberly set down in a Play which their Ancestors took to be serious . I have subjoined the genuine speech for ...
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... never silent night possess this clime ; Stand still , you watches of the element ; All times and seasons , rest you at a stay , That Edward may be still fair England's king . But day's bright beam doth vanish fast away , And needs I ...
... never silent night possess this clime ; Stand still , you watches of the element ; All times and seasons , rest you at a stay , That Edward may be still fair England's king . But day's bright beam doth vanish fast away , And needs I ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alaham beauty blessing blood breath brother Cæsar Calica Clor COMEDY Corb Court crown curse dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch earth eyes fair father Faustus fear FRANCIS BEAUMONT GEORGE CHAPMAN give gods grief hand happy hath hear heart heaven hell Heywood honour hope Jacin JAMES SHIRLEY JOHN FLETCHER JOHN MARSTON JOHN WEBSTER King kiss Lady leave live look Lord Madam maid methinks mistress Moth mother ne'er never night noble Ovid passion Peneus Phao PHILIP MASSINGER pity play pleasure poor pray Prince Queen revenge rich Sapho Shakspeare shame shew sister sleep sorrow soul speak spirit sweet tears tell thee thine thing THOMAS HEYWOOD THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art thou hast thoughts Thyestes thyself TRAGEDY true twas unto virtue weep what's Whilst wife WILLIAM ROWLEY Witch woman
Passagens conhecidas
Página 33 - Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me, if I sleep I never wake ; This fear is that which makes me tremble thus. And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come? Light. To rid thee of thy life ; Matrevis, come. Enter Matrevis and Gurney. Edw. I am too weak and feeble to resist : Assist me, sweet God, and receive my soul.
Página 245 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Página 97 - There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is; there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.
Página 45 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean- — ne'er be found.
Página 39 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but...
Página 44 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Página 2 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by...
Página 10 - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good. Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
Página 24 - I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay...
Página 29 - But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? My nobles rule, I bear the name of king; I wear the crown, but am...