Works: Specimens of English dramatic poetsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... passionate and weighty Nuntius ; yet after all this divine rapture , O dura messorum ilia ! the breath that comes from the uncapable multitude is able to poison it ; and ere it be acted , let the author resolve to fix to every scene ...
... passionate and weighty Nuntius ; yet after all this divine rapture , O dura messorum ilia ! the breath that comes from the uncapable multitude is able to poison it ; and ere it be acted , let the author resolve to fix to every scene ...
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... passions In riddles and in dreams , and leave the path Of simple virtue , which was never made To seem the thing it is not . You have left me heartless ; Go , go brag mine is in your bosom : I hope ' twill multiply love there . You do ...
... passions In riddles and in dreams , and leave the path Of simple virtue , which was never made To seem the thing it is not . You have left me heartless ; Go , go brag mine is in your bosom : I hope ' twill multiply love there . You do ...
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... . Such power has the passion of shame truly personated , not only to " strike guilty creatures unto the soul , " but to " appal " even those that are " free . " What would you now ? are ye not pleased yet 59 THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY.
... . Such power has the passion of shame truly personated , not only to " strike guilty creatures unto the soul , " but to " appal " even those that are " free . " What would you now ? are ye not pleased yet 59 THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY.
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... passions , Thou wilt remember best those careful friends That placed thee in the noblest way of life . She is a princess I prefer thee to . Bell . In that small time that I have seen the world , I never knew a man hasty to part with A ...
... passions , Thou wilt remember best those careful friends That placed thee in the noblest way of life . She is a princess I prefer thee to . Bell . In that small time that I have seen the world , I never knew a man hasty to part with A ...
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... passionate , Thus without reason ? Phi . Oh , but thou dost not know what ' tis to die . Bell . Yes , I do know , my lord : " Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet resting from all jealousy , A thing we all pursue ; I ...
... passionate , Thus without reason ? Phi . Oh , but thou dost not know what ' tis to die . Bell . Yes , I do know , my lord : " Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet resting from all jealousy , A thing we all pursue ; I ...
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Common terms and phrases
Acted Antigone Antonio ATREUS beauty Berinthia blessing blood Bonduca brother Cæsar Carracus Clor COMEDY Cred Creon dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch e'er earth eyes fair father fear Fernando Fletcher FRANCIS BEAUMONT FRANCIS QUARLES give gods grief happy hath hear heart heaven honour hope Ithocles JOHN FLETCHER king lady leave live look lord lov'd madam maid Majesties Servants Massinger methinks misery mistress Moth NATHANIEL FIELD nature ne'er NEARCHUS Nennius never night noble passion Peneus PHILIP MASSINGER pity play Pompey poor pray prison Ptol Queen Richard Brome Scud SEBASTIANO sister sleep sorrow soul speak sweet sword tears tell thee thine things THOMAS D'URFEY thou art thou hast thought THYESTES TRAGEDY true truth twas UNNATURAL COMBAT unto virtue weep whilst wife woman worthy
Popular passages
Page 95 - I sit by and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she...
Page 33 - Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me ! Yet stay ! heaven-gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces ; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. Come, violent death ! Serve for mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers, when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet ! They strangle her kneeling.
Page 34 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
Page 68 - 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.
Page 12 - It shall not be a house of convertites ; My mind shall make it honester to me Than the Pope's palace, and more peaceable Than thy soul, though thou art a cardinal.
Page 70 - In presence of you, I had had my end. For this I did delude my noble father With a feign'd pilgrimage, and dress'd myself In habit of a boy; and, for I knew My birth no match for you, I was past hope Of having you ; and understanding well, That when I made discovery of my sex I...
Page 34 - 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 126 - Queen. Now for the love of him whom Jove hath mark'd The honour of your bed, and for the sake Of clear virginity, be advocate For us, and our distresses ! This good deed Shall raze you out o' the book of trespasses All you are set down there.
Page 106 - A tragicomedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy, which must be a representation of familiar people, with such kind of trouble as no life be questioned ; so that a god is as lawful in this as in a tragedy, and mean people as in a comedy.
Page 210 - Urswick, command the Dukeling, and these fellows, To Digby the Lieutenant of the Tower : With safety let them be convey'd to London. It is our pleasure, no uncivil outrage, Taunts, or abuse, be suffer'd to their persons : They shall meet fairer law than they deserve.