John Ford; Ed. with Introduction and NotesT. F. Unwin, 1888 - 471 pages |
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... King and no King . Dryden thought that this play was the finest that Beaumont and Fletcher ever wrote ; it is certainly full of splendid rhetoric , tragic or tender , always broad , various and facile in style ; but for the qualities of ...
... King and no King . Dryden thought that this play was the finest that Beaumont and Fletcher ever wrote ; it is certainly full of splendid rhetoric , tragic or tender , always broad , various and facile in style ; but for the qualities of ...
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... King's Servants at the Blackfriars and Globe Theatres . It was published in the following year , and was the first play that Ford printed , perhaps on account of its success on the stage . In one of the commendatory poems prefixed to ...
... King's Servants at the Blackfriars and Globe Theatres . It was published in the following year , and was the first play that Ford printed , perhaps on account of its success on the stage . In one of the commendatory poems prefixed to ...
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... king With fawning protestations of your graces , Your rare perfections , admirable beauty ? This had been a new piece of modesty Would have deserved a chronicle ! Tha . You're bitter ; And , brother , by your leave , not kindly 1 wise ...
... king With fawning protestations of your graces , Your rare perfections , admirable beauty ? This had been a new piece of modesty Would have deserved a chronicle ! Tha . You're bitter ; And , brother , by your leave , not kindly 1 wise ...
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... king of thee , More great than were I king of all the world . But I shall lose you , sweetheart . Ann . Gio . You must be married , mistress . Ann . But you shall not . Yes ! to whom ? Gio . Some one must have you . Ann . You must . Gio ...
... king of thee , More great than were I king of all the world . But I shall lose you , sweetheart . Ann . Gio . You must be married , mistress . Ann . But you shall not . Yes ! to whom ? Gio . Some one must have you . Ann . You must . Gio ...
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... King's servants at the Blackfriars Theatre , and was published in 1633. It is said in the Prologue that the story - the scene of which is curiously placed in Sparta-- had some foundation in fact . It may have been taken from an Italian ...
... King's servants at the Blackfriars Theatre , and was published in 1633. It is said in the Prologue that the story - the scene of which is curiously placed in Sparta-- had some foundation in fact . It may have been taken from an Italian ...
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Page i - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page xvi - twas my father's last bequest. \Places a ring on the finger of ITHOCLES. Thus I new-many him whose wife I am ; Death shall not separate us. O, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of death ! and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows, Yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them :...
Page i - Souls of Poets, dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Page 99 - Friar. Dispute no more in this, for know, young man, These are no school-points ; nice philosophy May tolerate unlikely arguments, But heaven admits no jest ! wits that presumed On wit too much, by striving how to prove There was no God, with foolish grounds of art, Discover'd first the nearest way to hell; And fill'd the world with devilish atheism.
Page 105 - I'll undertake with a handful of silver to buy a headful of wit at any time : but, sirrah, I have another purchase in hand ; I shall have the wench, mine 'uncle says. I will but wash my face and shift socks, and then have at her, i'faith ! — Mark my pace, Poggio ! [Passes over the stage, and exit.
Page 100 - Shall a peevish sound, A customary form, from man to man, Of brother and of sister, be a bar Twixt my perpetual happiness and me? Say that we had one father, say one womb (Curse to my joys) gave both us life and birth; Are we not therefore each to other bound 30 So much the more by nature? By the links Of blood, of reason? Nay, if you will have't, Even of religion, to be ever one, One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all?
Page vi - I do not know where to find, in "any play, a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising, as in this. This is indeed, according to Milton, to describe high passions and high actions. The fortitude of the Spartan boy, who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died, without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit, and exenteration" of the inmost mind, which Calantha, with a holy violence against lier nature, keeps closely covered, till the last duties...
Page 226 - Wrong'd soul, thy prayers are heard. Pen. Here, lo, I breathe, A miserable creature, led to ruin By an unnatural brother! Ith. I consume In languishing affections for that trespass ; Yet cannot die. Pen. The handmaid to the wages...
Page 164 - Giovanni, that hast had the spoil Of thine own virtues and my modest fame, Would thou hadst been less subject to those stars That luckless...
Page 456 - I expect No less than what severity calls justice, And politicians safety; let such beg As feed on alms, but if there can be mercy In a protested enemy, then may it Descend to these poor creatures, whose engagements, To th...