 | Kate W. Jameson, Frank Cummins Lockwood - Education - 1925 - 186 pages
...Bellario, Philaster says: "Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bellario. Yes, I do, my lord. "Tis less than to be born, a lasting sleep. A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost." When we think of the circumstances, the line "A quiet resting from all jealousy" becomes inexpressibly... | |
 | John Webster - English literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...of a long world-weariness, and their praises of the final release of death. Yes I do know, my lord : 'Tis less than to be born : a lasting sleep. A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. And again — 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest. Children begin it to us, strong men seek it, And kings... | |
 | Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger - Drama - 1927 - 514 pages
...shepherd boy that he does not realize what it is to die, the boy answers : "Yes, I do know, my lord: 'Tis less than to be born, a lasting sleep; A quiet...all jealousy A thing we all pursue; I know, besides, 'Tis but a giving over of a game That must be lost. ..." And again, "Alas, my lord, my life is not... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...passionate, Thus without reason ? O, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Yes, I do know, my Lord! 'Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. From Philaster: FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER 284. "ALL THE FLOWERS." ". . . But those which perfume... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 618 pages
...what he knew.' May we not almost describe his death in his own words, written long before? — ' . . . a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue ; I know besides 'Tis but the giving np a game which must be lost.' In an old Register-book belonging to the parish... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...Arethusa, a Philaster's betrothed, in a duet with Philaster that is almost purely sexual: Bellario: Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealously; A thing we all pursue; I know, besides, It is but giving over of a game That must be lost.... | |
 | Roger N. Lancaster - Social Science - 1994 - 370 pages
...with Danger Philaster: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. Bellario: Yes, I do know, my Lord: Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; 1 know besides, It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost. — Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...PHII.ASTF.R: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. BKI.I.ARIO: Yes, I do know, my Lord: "fis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting...It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost. I'hilaster (written 1(104) act ï 17 There is no other purgatory but a woman. The Scornful Lady ( 1... | |
 | Diana Collecott - History - 1999 - 376 pages
...much, and more, is implied by Bryher's choice of Bellario's words for epigraph to Tlie Player's Boy. It is but giving over of a game that must be lost . . . (Philaster Ill.i) 4 THE GIRL-PAGE While Wilson Knight described the 'friendship-theme' of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...Thus without reason ? Phi. O, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. Bel. Yes, I do know, my Lord : 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy, 265 A thing we all pursue; I know besides It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Phi. But... | |
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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 Phi. 
