Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1835 - English drama |
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... thing in the shape of biographical notices * . I had nothing of consequence to add to the slight sketches in Dodsley and the Biographica Dramatica , and I was unwilling to swell the volume with mere transcription . The reader will not ...
... thing in the shape of biographical notices * . I had nothing of consequence to add to the slight sketches in Dodsley and the Biographica Dramatica , and I was unwilling to swell the volume with mere transcription . The reader will not ...
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... thing to tell , While slumb'ring on his careful bed he rests , His heart stabb'd in with knife is reft of life . Gorb . O Eubulus , oh draw this sword of ours , And pierce this heart with speed . O hateful light , O loathsome life , O ...
... thing to tell , While slumb'ring on his careful bed he rests , His heart stabb'd in with knife is reft of life . Gorb . O Eubulus , oh draw this sword of ours , And pierce this heart with speed . O hateful light , O loathsome life , O ...
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... murdered man is his son . Upon this he goes distracted . HIERONIMO mad . Hier . My son and what's a son ? A thing begot within a pair of minutes , there about : A lump bred up in darkness , and doth serve 6 THE SPANISH TRAGEDY .
... murdered man is his son . Upon this he goes distracted . HIERONIMO mad . Hier . My son and what's a son ? A thing begot within a pair of minutes , there about : A lump bred up in darkness , and doth serve 6 THE SPANISH TRAGEDY .
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... thing in Christendom . ] THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS . BY CHRISTOPHER MAR- LOWE . How Faustus fell to the study of magic . born of parents base of stock In Germany , within a town called Rhodes : At ...
... thing in Christendom . ] THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS . BY CHRISTOPHER MAR- LOWE . How Faustus fell to the study of magic . born of parents base of stock In Germany , within a town called Rhodes : At ...
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... see thee frown : as Kings at mine do lie , So shall thy feet trample on empery . Make Health thin ' Gainst the d Be ever me With hi bet , thou shalt be strong ng darts of surfeiting lling . d within thing The J A 65 rue . I ́s mira- me.
... see thee frown : as Kings at mine do lie , So shall thy feet trample on empery . Make Health thin ' Gainst the d Be ever me With hi bet , thou shalt be strong ng darts of surfeiting lling . d within thing The J A 65 rue . I ́s mira- me.
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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
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 39 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but...
Page 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!
Page 2 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...