Specimens of English dramatic poetsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... break his neck ! Mon. I ' the rushes ! Fra . And what ' s more , Upon the instant lose all use of speech , All vital motion , like a man had lain Wound up three days . Now mark each circum- stance . Mon. And look upon this creature was ...
... break his neck ! Mon. I ' the rushes ! Fra . And what ' s more , Upon the instant lose all use of speech , All vital motion , like a man had lain Wound up three days . Now mark each circum- stance . Mon. And look upon this creature was ...
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... break . These are but feigned shadows of my evils : Terrify babes , my lord , with painted devils ; I am past such needless palsy . For your names Of whore and murderess , they proceed from you , As if a man should spit against the wind ...
... break . These are but feigned shadows of my evils : Terrify babes , my lord , with painted devils ; I am past such needless palsy . For your names Of whore and murderess , they proceed from you , As if a man should spit against the wind ...
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... breaking of the crucifix ! Farewell . There are some sins which Heaven doth duly punish In a whole family . This it is to rise By all dishonest means ! Let all men know , That tree shall long time keep a steady foot follow the beautiful ...
... breaking of the crucifix ! Farewell . There are some sins which Heaven doth duly punish In a whole family . This it is to rise By all dishonest means ! Let all men know , That tree shall long time keep a steady foot follow the beautiful ...
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... break up house , and live upon her friends . How blest are you ! you have happiness alone ; Others must fall to thousands , you to one , Sufficient in himself to make your forehead Dazzle the world with jewels , and petitionary people ...
... break up house , and live upon her friends . How blest are you ! you have happiness alone ; Others must fall to thousands , you to one , Sufficient in himself to make your forehead Dazzle the world with jewels , and petitionary people ...
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... duke's son In private ; why , she first begins with one Who afterwards to thousands proves a whore : Break ice in one place , it will crack in more . Moth . Most certainly applied ! Hip . O brother 58 ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS.
... duke's son In private ; why , she first begins with one Who afterwards to thousands proves a whore : Break ice in one place , it will crack in more . Moth . Most certainly applied ! Hip . O brother 58 ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS.
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Acted Antigone Antonio Appius ATREUS beauty Bell blessing blood Bonduca brother Carracus Cast chaste Clor COMEDY curse 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 James Shirley JOHN FLETCHER king lady leave live look lord lov'd madam maid Majesties Servants methinks mistress Moth mother NATHANIEL FIELD nature ne'er NEARCHUS Nennius never night noble Ordel passion Peneus PHILIP MASSINGER play Pompey poor pray prison queen REVENGER'S TRAGEDY Richard Brome Scud sister sleep sorrow soul speak sweet tears tell thee Thier thine things thou art thou hast thoughts THYESTES Tom D'Urfey TRAGEDY true truth twas unto virtue weep Whilst woman youth
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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 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 72 - My soul from other lands to thee shall soar. Thy else almighty beauty cannot move Rage from the seas, nor thy love teach them love, Nor tame wild Boreas' harshness ; them hast read How roughly he in pieces shivered Fair Orithea, whom he swore he loved.
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 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 206 - 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.
Page 137 - Fletcher's ideas moved slow ; his versification, though sweet, is tedious, it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line, making up one after the other, adding image to image so deliberately, that we see their junctures. Shakspeare mingles every thing, runs line into line, embarrasses sentences and metaphors ; before one idea has burst its shell, another is hatched and clamorous for disclosure.
Page 16 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 24 - Which tradesmen use in 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 flattery) turn your eyes, And progress through yourself. Ant. Were there nor heaven nor hell, I should be honest : I have long serv'd virtue, And ne'er ta'en wages of her.
Page 17 - Miserable creature! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine, thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper ? Instruction to thee Comes like sweet showers to o'er-harden'd ground ; They wet, but pierce not deep.