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" 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. "
The Broken Heart - Page 67
by John Ford - 1894 - 132 pages
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Works: Specimens of English dramatic poets

Charles Lamb - 1903 - 422 pages
...feel The summons of departure short and certain. Cal. You feel too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Cal. Contemn not your condition, for the proof Of...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Dramatic specimens and the Garrick plays

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 702 pages
...departure short and certain. 1 [Edited Ellis.] Cal. You feed too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasure sweet'ned in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Cal. Contemn not your condition, for the...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Dramatic specimens and the Garrick plays

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 686 pages
...departure short and certain. 1 [Edited Ellis.] Cat. You feed too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasure sweet'ned in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Gal. Contemn not your condition, for the...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Dramatic specimens and the Garrick plays

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 710 pages
...departure short and certain. 1 [Edited Ellis.] Col. You feed too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasure sweet'ned in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Gal. Contemn not your condition, for the...
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The Broken Heart

John Ford - 1906 - 244 pages
...You feed too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories "~. Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, Of shadows soon decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted 20 Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical...
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Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis

David Klein - Criticism - 1910 - 284 pages
...because the play was presented before the nobility. Ford. Broken Heart (1629). III. 5: — Penthea. ... on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some...pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in the issue. The next illustration also shows that the pure type was regarded as the proper thing for...
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John Ford's Dramatic Works Reprinted from the Original Quartos ...

John Ford - English drama - 1927 - 432 pages
...your melancholly. Pen. Glories 1535 Of humane greatnesse are but pleasing dreames, And shadowes soone decaying : on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawne out at length By varied pleasures, sweetned in the mixture, 1540 But Tragicall in issue ; Beauty,...
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Contemporary Essays

William Thomson Hastings - American essays - 1928 - 454 pages
...slumber — The pageant of the world is marvellous, but the pageant of the world is vanity. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows...mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity — To die and be quit of it all is their desire; the bell that tolls throughout the drama is death...
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Study & Stage: A Year-book of Criticism

William Archer - Drama - 1899 - 270 pages
...finest things in the play fall before Mr. Poel's relentless pencil ; for instance, Penthea's lines — On the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some...pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Again, where Crotolon says to Orgilus — Friend, I will have it so Without our ruin by your politic...
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Themes in Drama: Volume 3, Drama, Dance and Music

James Redmond - Drama - 1981 - 280 pages
...Calantha of Ithocles's daring aspiration for her hand and love, and confessing that she herself, though 'on the stage /Of my mortality my youth hath acted /Some scenes of vanity', is now 'weary of a lingering life, / Who count the best a misery'. She asks the startled Calantha to...
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