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... Despoiled streight his breast , and all we might Wiped in vain with napkins next
at hand The sudden streams of blood , that flushed fast Out of the gaping wound :
O what a look , O what a ruthful stedfast eye methought He fixt upon my face ...
... Despoiled streight his breast , and all we might Wiped in vain with napkins next
at hand The sudden streams of blood , that flushed fast Out of the gaping wound :
O what a look , O what a ruthful stedfast eye methought He fixt upon my face ...
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... and kist him in the face , With tears , for ruth to reave such one by death ;
Should nature yet consent to slay her son ? O mother , thou to murder thus thy
child ! Even Jove with justice must with lightning flames From heaven send down
some ...
... and kist him in the face , With tears , for ruth to reave such one by death ;
Should nature yet consent to slay her son ? O mother , thou to murder thus thy
child ! Even Jove with justice must with lightning flames From heaven send down
some ...
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She should have shone : search thou the book : Had the moon shone in my boy '
s face , there was a kind of grace , That I know , nay I do know had the murd ' rer
seen him , 6 Tags of points . His weapon would have fallen , and cut the earth ...
She should have shone : search thou the book : Had the moon shone in my boy '
s face , there was a kind of grace , That I know , nay I do know had the murd ' rer
seen him , 6 Tags of points . His weapon would have fallen , and cut the earth ...
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Jerningham , if any but thyself Had spoke that word , it would have come as cold
As the bleak northern winds upon the face of winter , From thee , they have some
power on my blood ; Yet being from thee , had but that hollow sound Come from ...
Jerningham , if any but thyself Had spoke that word , it would have come as cold
As the bleak northern winds upon the face of winter , From thee , they have some
power on my blood ; Yet being from thee , had but that hollow sound Come from ...
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And . Methinks , father , you look as you did , only your face is more withered .
Fort . Boys , be proud ; your father hath the whole world in this compass . I am all
felicity , up to the brims . In a minute am I come from Babylon ; I have been this
hali ...
And . Methinks , father , you look as you did , only your face is more withered .
Fort . Boys , be proud ; your father hath the whole world in this compass . I am all
felicity , up to the brims . In a minute am I come from Babylon ; I have been this
hali ...
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Page 38 - And then thou must be damn'd perpetually. Stand still you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make 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 40 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 292 - Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit ; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit, Which way soever men refer it, Much like thy riddle, Samson, in one day Or seven, though one should musing sit.
Page 179 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?
Page 170 - They are foul anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy music. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names, which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 420 - Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs ; or as the moon is moved, When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness.
Page 29 - t is to count this trash ! Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay The things they traffic for with wedge of gold, Whereof a man may easily in a day Tell that which may maintain him all his life. The needy groom, that never finger'd groat, Would make a miracle of thus much coin ; But he whose steel-barr'd coffers are cramm'd full, And all his life-time hath been tired, Wearying his fingers...
Page 213 - Constantly. Bos. Do you not weep ! Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out, The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards, and bedews the heavens. Ferd. Cover her face ; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
Page 355 - Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi.
Page 30 - Infinite riches in a little room. But now how stands the wind? Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill ? Ha! to the east? yes : see how stand the vanes? East and by south : why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten up by Nilus...
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| Title | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare:: With Notes |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Editor | Charles Lamb |
| Contributors | John McCreery, Hamblin and Seyfang |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | John Bumpus, near the gate, St. John's Square, 1813 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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