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The rest are from Dodsley ' s and Hawkins ' s collections , and the works of
Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Massinger . I have chosen wherever I
could to give entire scenes , and in some instances successive scenes , rather
than to ...
The rest are from Dodsley ' s and Hawkins ' s collections , and the works of
Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Massinger . I have chosen wherever I
could to give entire scenes , and in some instances successive scenes , rather
than to ...
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That even in those where we should comfort find , Where our delight now in our
aged days Should rest and be , even there our only grief And deepest sorrows to
abridge our life , Most pining cares and deadly thoughts do grave . Arost .
That even in those where we should comfort find , Where our delight now in our
aged days Should rest and be , even there our only grief And deepest sorrows to
abridge our life , Most pining cares and deadly thoughts do grave . Arost .
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O silly woman I , why to this hour Have kind and fortune thus deferr ' d my breath ,
That I should live to see this doleful day ? Will ever wight believe that such hard
heart Could rest within the cruel mother ' s breast , With her own hand to slay her
...
O silly woman I , why to this hour Have kind and fortune thus deferr ' d my breath ,
That I should live to see this doleful day ? Will ever wight believe that such hard
heart Could rest within the cruel mother ' s breast , With her own hand to slay her
...
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... a ball of fire , And so doth bring confusion to them all . [ Erit . Jaques and Pedro
, serdunts . Jaq . I wonder , Pedro , why our master thus At midnight sends us with
our torches light , When man and bird and beast are all at rest , Save those that ...
... a ball of fire , And so doth bring confusion to them all . [ Erit . Jaques and Pedro
, serdunts . Jaq . I wonder , Pedro , why our master thus At midnight sends us with
our torches light , When man and bird and beast are all at rest , Save those that ...
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The lines in the Extract have a luscious smoothness in them , and they were the
most temperate which I could pick out of this Play : The rest is in king Cambyses
vein ; rape , and murder , and su : perlatives ; “ huffing braggart puft ” lines * such
...
The lines in the Extract have a luscious smoothness in them , and they were the
most temperate which I could pick out of this Play : The rest is in king Cambyses
vein ; rape , and murder , and su : perlatives ; “ huffing braggart puft ” lines * such
...
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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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