 Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.  The Dramatic Works of John Webster - Page 242by John Webster - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Walter De la Mare - Circus performer - 1921 - 396 pages
...Philemon Holland. 'Did'st thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er...miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison. . . .' John Webster. 'Provoke them not, fair sir, with tempting words; the heavens are gracious. .... | |
 | James Branch Cabell - 1916 - 268 pages
...a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heavens o'er our heads, like her lookingglass, only gives...miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.' Many years ago that lamentation was familiar. What wonder, then, that Dr. Herrick should have dared... | |
 | American literature - 1928 - 560 pages
...preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body; this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads, like her looking-glass, only serves to give us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison." It is superb writing,... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1980 - 284 pages
...woman' (ii 576). Didst thou ever behold a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world is like her little turf of grass, and the Heaven o'er our heads like her looking glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison. Imprisonment... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Literary Collections - 1983 - 406 pages
...earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? such is the soul in the body: this world is like her 135 little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads,...miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison. DUCHESS. Am not I thy duchess? BOSOLA. Thou art some great woman, sure; for riot 140 begins to sit... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 608 pages
...preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er...miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison. [4.2.114-20] Or one may find this in a modern American ballad, of uncertain parentage: The old grey... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English drama - 1926 - 834 pages
...preserve earthworms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er...looking-glass only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small com- no pass of our prison. Duch. Am not I thy duchess? Bos. Thou art some great woman, sure, for riot... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowlcdi;<of the small compass of oui- prison. Ditch. Am not I thy Duchess ': Bos. Thou art some great woman, sure, for riot begins t<> sit on thy forehead (clad in gray hairs) twenty years SIXJIHT than on a merry milk-maid's. Thou... | |
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