Works: Specimens of English dramatic poetsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... that though I rest silent in my own work , yet to most of theirs , I dare ( without flattery ) fix that of Martial : non norunt hæc monu- menta mori . " Mon. At your pleasure , sir . Stand to the 2 ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS.
... that though I rest silent in my own work , yet to most of theirs , I dare ( without flattery ) fix that of Martial : non norunt hæc monu- menta mori . " Mon. At your pleasure , sir . Stand to the 2 ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS.
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... stand on ' t much ; pray , change your language . Mon. O , for God sake ! gentlewoman , your credit Shall be more famous by it . Law . Well , then , have at you . Vit . I am at the mark , sir : I'll give aim to you , And tell you how ...
... stand on ' t much ; pray , change your language . Mon. O , for God sake ! gentlewoman , your credit Shall be more famous by it . Law . Well , then , have at you . Vit . I am at the mark , sir : I'll give aim to you , And tell you how ...
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... May do it thus ; is it fit ? Ant . What said you ? Duch . Sir , [ She puts the ring on his finger . [ He kneels . This goodly roof of yours is too low built ; I cannot stand upright in ' t nor discourse , 23 THE DUCHESS OF MALFY.
... May do it thus ; is it fit ? Ant . What said you ? Duch . Sir , [ She puts the ring on his finger . [ He kneels . This goodly roof of yours is too low built ; I cannot stand upright in ' t nor discourse , 23 THE DUCHESS OF MALFY.
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Charles Lamb William Macdonald. I cannot stand upright in ' t nor discourse , Without I raise it higher raise yourself ; Or , if you please , my hand to help you so . Ant . Ambition , madam , is a great man's madness , That is not kept ...
Charles Lamb William Macdonald. I cannot stand upright in ' t nor discourse , Without I raise it higher raise yourself ; Or , if you please , my hand to help you so . Ant . Ambition , madam , is a great man's madness , That is not kept ...
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... stand still . Virtue is ever sowing of her seeds ; In the trenches for the soldier ; in the wakeful study For the scholar ; in the furrows of the sea For men of our profession ; of all which Arise and spring up honour . Selling of Land ...
... stand still . Virtue is ever sowing of her seeds ; In the trenches for the soldier ; in the wakeful study For the scholar ; in the furrows of the sea For men of our profession ; of all which Arise and spring up honour . Selling of Land ...
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Antonio Berinthia Bian blessing blood Bonduca brother Cæsar Carracus Clor COMEDY Creon curse dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch e'er earth eyes fair father fear Fernando Fletcher fortunes 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 Massinger methinks misery mistress Moth NATHANIEL FIELD nature ne'er NEARCHUS Nennius never night noble passion Peneus Penthea PHILIP MASSINGER pity play Pompey poor pray Ptol Queen Richard Brome Scud SEBASTIANO servant shalt sister sleep sorrow soul speak sweet sword tears tell thee THESEUS thine THOMAS D'URFEY thou art thou hast thought THYESTES TRAGEDY true truth twas UNNATURAL COMBAT unto virtue weep whilst wife woman worthy wretched youth
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.