The Broken HeartH. Holt, 1894 - 132 pages |
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... play - writing for support . It has been inferred that he looked after the legal interests of large landed estates , doubtless acting as advisor in matters requiring a knowledge of jurisprudence . A line in the prologue to the comedy ...
... play - writing for support . It has been inferred that he looked after the legal interests of large landed estates , doubtless acting as advisor in matters requiring a knowledge of jurisprudence . A line in the prologue to the comedy ...
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... plays by such men as Crashaw and Shirley are extant , and Ford himself was one of those who burst into mourning song at the death of Ben Jonson , whom he saw fit to style " the best of English poets . " II . Although Ford may be said to ...
... plays by such men as Crashaw and Shirley are extant , and Ford himself was one of those who burst into mourning song at the death of Ben Jonson , whom he saw fit to style " the best of English poets . " II . Although Ford may be said to ...
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... plays of the master dramatist of all time that their true middle position is established . So far as we know , Ford ... play , The Lover's Melancholy , published in 1629 , was " the first of his that ever courted reader . " But during ...
... plays of the master dramatist of all time that their true middle position is established . So far as we know , Ford ... play , The Lover's Melancholy , published in 1629 , was " the first of his that ever courted reader . " But during ...
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... plays save Perkin Warbeck . He may not rise to such heights in single scenes , or in detached passages , as elsewhere , but in general effect he is more harmonious and pow- erful . " Mock pathos " is one of the most serious charges that ...
... plays save Perkin Warbeck . He may not rise to such heights in single scenes , or in detached passages , as elsewhere , but in general effect he is more harmonious and pow- erful . " Mock pathos " is one of the most serious charges that ...
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... plays . There is far less that is evidently studied . Ford is not a poet who often gives us the impression of having struck off a scene or ... play , it is not fair to Ford for us to allow our natural prejudice against it viii INTRODUCTION .
... plays . There is far less that is evidently studied . Ford is not a poet who often gives us the impression of having struck off a scene or ... play , it is not fair to Ford for us to allow our natural prejudice against it viii INTRODUCTION .
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Page 132 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.
Page 127 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Page xv - I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in. A sound of music touch'd mine ears, or rather Indeed entranced my soul ; as I stole nearer...
Page 113 - I but deceiv'd your eyes with antick 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 [court] new pleasures, and outlive them:* They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings ; Let me die smiling.
Page 131 - I do not know where to find, in "any play, a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising, as in this. This is indeed, according to Milton, to describe high passions and high actions. The fortitude of the Spartan boy, who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died, without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit, and exenteration" of the inmost mind, which Calantha, with a holy violence against lier nature, keeps closely covered, till the last duties...
Page 107 - From this my humble frailty. Cal. To their wisdoms Who are to be spectators of thine end I make the reference : those that are dead Are dead ; had they not now died, of necessity They must have paid the debt they owed to nature One time or other.
Page 67 - Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows soon decaying : on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasures sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue.
Page 109 - I feel no palsies. On a pair-royal do I wait in death ; My sovereign as his liegeman ; on my mistress, As a devoted servant ; and on Ithocles, As if no brave, yet no unworthy enemy : Nor did I use an engine to entrap His life, out of a slavish fear to combat Youth, strength or cunning;* but for that I durst not Engage the goodness of a cause on fortune, By which his name might have outfaced my vengeance. Oh, Tecnicus, inspired with Phoabus...
Page 113 - Forgive me: now I turn to thee, thou shadow Of my contracted lord ! Bear witness all, I put my mother's wedding-ring upon His finger; 'twas my father's last bequest.
Page 70 - Pen. I must leave the world To revel in Elysium, and 'tis just To wish my brother some advantage here ; Yet, by my best hopes, Ithocles is ignorant Of this pursuit : but if you please to kill him. Lend him one angry look or one harsh word, And you shall soon conclude how strong a power Your absolute authority holds over His life and end.