The Dramatic Works of John Ford,: In Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 67
Page ix
... King's Bench , which he held for many years ; so that his patronage , which must have been considerable , ( as he appears to have been in some favour both with Elizabeth and her successor , ) probably afforded many facili- ties to his ...
... King's Bench , which he held for many years ; so that his patronage , which must have been considerable , ( as he appears to have been in some favour both with Elizabeth and her successor , ) probably afforded many facili- ties to his ...
Page xxxi
... king was probably less indebted to his armoury , than to his craft and his coffers , for the suppression of these attempts , which occasionally assumed a very threatening aspect : even the ill - judged attack on the coast , feeble as it ...
... king was probably less indebted to his armoury , than to his craft and his coffers , for the suppression of these attempts , which occasionally assumed a very threatening aspect : even the ill - judged attack on the coast , feeble as it ...
Page ciii
... king has mow'd beard . gray " Old copy , mew'd . " This is almost too absurd for Mr. Weber . Is there a child in the kingdom who does not know that to mew , is to moult , to shed the feathers ? & c . And this precious cor- rection ...
... king has mow'd beard . gray " Old copy , mew'd . " This is almost too absurd for Mr. Weber . Is there a child in the kingdom who does not know that to mew , is to moult , to shed the feathers ? & c . And this precious cor- rection ...
Page cvi
... king's daughter , Sole heir of Sparta . " I have ventured , " Mr. Weber says , " to make an alteration here . The old copy reads , Calantha is the princess , & c . which is neither unknown to Penthea , nor to the reader . " Pity that ...
... king's daughter , Sole heir of Sparta . " I have ventured , " Mr. Weber says , " to make an alteration here . The old copy reads , Calantha is the princess , & c . which is neither unknown to Penthea , nor to the reader . " Pity that ...
Page cvii
... king's daughter- Sole heir of Sparta : - ( her claims progressively rising in dignity ) —to shew the hopeless nature of his love . What now becomes of Mr. Weber's poor vulgarism - Calantha ' tis ? G.303 . W.278 . - Or progress in the ...
... king's daughter- Sole heir of Sparta : - ( her claims progressively rising in dignity ) —to shew the hopeless nature of his love . What now becomes of Mr. Weber's poor vulgarism - Calantha ' tis ? G.303 . W.278 . - Or progress in the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amet AMETHUS Amyc AMYCLAS Annabella ARETUS Armostes Bass Bassanes beauty Bian Bianca blood brother Calantha Cleo Cleophila Colona court Crot D'Av D'Avolos dare doth Duke Enter Eroclea Euphranea Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Fern Fernando Fior FIORMONDA fool Friar Giacopo Giov Giovanni grace Gril hath heart heaven Here's honour hope Ilsington is't Ithocles JOHN FORD Jonson Kala kiss lady Lady's Trial live lord Love's Love's Sacrifice Lover's Melancholy madam Maur Mauruccio means Melancholy Menaphon mistress NEARCHUS never noble old copy reads Orgilus Parthenophill PELIAS Penthea Perkin Warbeck pity poet Poggio pray prince Prophilus PUTANA Rhetias Roseilli SCENE sense sister Soranzo soul Sparta speak Sun's Darling sweet tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought truth Vasques vows Weber Witch of Edmonton word youth
Popular passages
Page 331 - twas my father's last bequest : Thus I new marry 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 vow new pleasures, and outlive them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings...
Page 159 - A lightless sulphur, chok'd with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness ; in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never-dying deaths ; there damned souls Roar without pity ; there are gluttons fed...
Page 284 - Shall fall in cinders, scorch'd by your disdain, Ere he will dare, poor man, to ope an eye On these divine looks, but with low-bent thoughts Accusing such presumption : as for words, He dares not utter any but of service ; Yet this lost creature loves you.
Page lx - Sir," he replied, with a serious and impressive air, "it is not easy for us to say what such a man as Johnson would call a good Greek scholar.
Page 110 - 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 259 - I'll tear my veil of politic French off, And stand up like a man resolv'd to do : — Action, not words, shall shew me. — Oh Penthea ! [Exit. Pen. He sigh'd my name sure, as he parted from me ; I fear I was too rough. Alas, poor gentleman! He look'd not like the ruins of his youth, But like the ruins of those ruins.
Page 18 - You come on just appointment. Welcome, gentlemen ! Have you won Rhetias, Corax ? Cor. Most sincerely. Cue. Save ye, nobilities ! Do your lordships take notice of my page ? Tis a fashion of the newest edition, spick and span-new, without example. Do your honour, housewife ! Gril. There's a curtsy for you, and a curtsy for you.
Page 332 - Glories, pleasures, pomps, delights, and ease, Can but please [The] outward senses, when the mind Is [or] untroubled, or by peace refined.
Page 193 - Vas. My lord, according to his yearly custom, keeping this day a feast in honour of his birthday, by me invites you thither. Your worthy father, with the pope's reverend nuncio, and other magnificoes of Parma, have promised their presence ; will't please you to be of the number ? Gio. Yes, tell [him] I dare come. Vas. Dare come ? Gio.
Page xxv - What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight.