Works: Specimens of English dramatic poetsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... worth is not like that Which tradesmen use i ' the city ; their false lights Are to rid bad wares off : and I must tell you , If you will know where breathes a complete man ( I speak it without flatter , ) turn your eyes , And progress ...
... worth is not like that Which tradesmen use i ' the city ; their false lights Are to rid bad wares off : and I must tell you , If you will know where breathes a complete man ( I speak it without flatter , ) turn your eyes , And progress ...
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... worth Than that which thou wouldst comfort , call'd a soul . I will send her masks of common courtezans , Have her meat serv'd up by bawds and ruffians , And , ' cause she ' ll needs be mad , I am resolv'd To move forth the common ...
... worth Than that which thou wouldst comfort , call'd a soul . I will send her masks of common courtezans , Have her meat serv'd up by bawds and ruffians , And , ' cause she ' ll needs be mad , I am resolv'd To move forth the common ...
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... Worth all men's pity . Dirge in a Funeral Pageant . All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying : These have but their growing prime ; And man does flourish but his time : Survey our progress from our birth ; We are set ...
... Worth all men's pity . Dirge in a Funeral Pageant . All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying : These have but their growing prime ; And man does flourish but his time : Survey our progress from our birth ; We are set ...
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... worth payment To the altar offerings , though their fame , And all the charity of their name , " Tween heaven and this yield no more light Than rotten trees which shine i ' the night . O , look the last act be best i ' the play , And ...
... worth payment To the altar offerings , though their fame , And all the charity of their name , " Tween heaven and this yield no more light Than rotten trees which shine i ' the night . O , look the last act be best i ' the play , And ...
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... worth and virtue ; and , as I did grow More and more apprehensive , I did thirst To see the man so praised . But yet all this Was but a maiden longing to be lost As soon as found ; till , sitting in my window , Printing my thoughts in ...
... worth and virtue ; and , as I did grow More and more apprehensive , I did thirst To see the man so praised . But yet all this Was but a maiden longing to be lost As soon as found ; till , sitting in my window , Printing my thoughts in ...
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Common terms and phrases
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.