The Best Elizabethan PlaysWilliam Roscoe Thayer Ginn, 1890 - 611 pages |
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... blood . Hence comes it that a strong - built citadel Commands much more than letters can import ; Which maxim had.but Phalaris observed , He had never bellowed , in a brazen bull , Of great ones ' envy of the poor petty wights Let me be ...
... blood . Hence comes it that a strong - built citadel Commands much more than letters can import ; Which maxim had.but Phalaris observed , He had never bellowed , in a brazen bull , Of great ones ' envy of the poor petty wights Let me be ...
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... blood Is far from us and our profession . Bar . Why , I esteem the injury far less To take the lives of miserable men Than be the causers of their misery . life . You have my wealth , the labour of my life , The comfort of mine age , my ...
... blood Is far from us and our profession . Bar . Why , I esteem the injury far less To take the lives of miserable men Than be the causers of their misery . life . You have my wealth , the labour of my life , The comfort of mine age , my ...
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... blood and not with gold . 5c [ Exeunt . 1 Rhodes was wrested from the Knights of St. John by Solyman II , in 1522 . 2 Established . 8 Cf. King John , i , 2 . SCENE III . The Market - place . - Enter 50 [ ACT II . THE JEW OF MALTA .
... blood and not with gold . 5c [ Exeunt . 1 Rhodes was wrested from the Knights of St. John by Solyman II , in 1522 . 2 Established . 8 Cf. King John , i , 2 . SCENE III . The Market - place . - Enter 50 [ ACT II . THE JEW OF MALTA .
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... blood , that he might live . Kath . Who made them enemies ? Fern . I know not , and that grieves me most of all . Kath . My son loved thine . Fern . And so did Lodowick him . Kath . Lend me that weapon that did kill my son , And it ...
... blood , that he might live . Kath . Who made them enemies ? Fern . I know not , and that grieves me most of all . Kath . My son loved thine . Fern . And so did Lodowick him . Kath . Lend me that weapon that did kill my son , And it ...
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... blood of Hydra , Lerna's bane : The juice of hebon , and Cocytus ' breath , And all the poisons of the Stygian pool Break from the fiery kingdom ; and in this Vomit your venom and invenom her 2 That like a fiend hath left her father ...
... blood of Hydra , Lerna's bane : The juice of hebon , and Cocytus ' breath , And all the poisons of the Stygian pool Break from the fiery kingdom ; and in this Vomit your venom and invenom her 2 That like a fiend hath left her father ...
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The Best Elizabethan Plays William Roscoe Thayer,Francis Beaumont,Associate Professor of English John Fletcher,John Fletcher No preview available - 2015 |
BEST ELIZABETHAN PLAYS William Roscoe 1859-1923 Thayer,Christopher 1564-1593 Marlowe,Ben 1573?-1637 Jonson No preview available - 2016 |
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Abig Abigail Antonio Arcite ARETHUSA Barabas BELLARIO blood Bosola brave brother Calymath Card CARIOLA Countryman cousin dare Daughter dear death Delio Dion doctor doth Duch duchess Duchess of Malfi Emilia Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Face fair Farewell father fear Ferd Fern fortune Gaoler gentleman Gerrold give gods gold grace hand hast hath hear heart Heaven Hippolyta honour in't Is't Itha Ithamore Jew of Malta Julia King kiss Knights lady live Lodowick look lord madam Malta Mammon master Mathias Methinks ne'er never noble Noble Kinsmen on't Palamon PESCARA PHARAMOND Philaster Pilia Pirithous pity pray prince prison Re-enter SCENE Shakespeare shalt soul speak sweet sword tell Thebes thee There's Theseus thing Thou art Thra to't twas twill unto What's Wooer
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Page 574 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Page 486 - O you heavenly charmers, What things you make of us ! For what we lack We laugh, for what we have are sorry ; still Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful For that which is, and with you leave dispute That are above our question. — Let's go off, And bear us like the time.
Page 148 - For I do mean To have a list of wives and concubines, Equal with Solomon, who had the stone Alike with me ; and I will make me a back With the elixir, that shall be as tough As Hercules, to encounter fifty a night.
Page 576 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
Page 15 - I have ever truly cherished my good opinion of other men's worthy labours ; especially of that full and heightened style of Master Chapman ; the laboured and understanding works of Master Jonson ; the no less worthy composures of the both worthily excellent Master Beaumont and Master Fletcher...
Page 158 - Some do believe hermaphrodeity, That both do act and suffer. But these two Make the rest ductile, malleable, extensive. And even in gold they are ; for we do find Seeds of them by our fire, and gold in them; And can produce the species of each metal More perfect thence, than nature doth in earth.
Page 574 - Twas to bring you By degrees to mortification : Listen. Dirge. Hark, now every thing is still ; The screech-owl, and the whistler shrill, Call upon our dame aloud, And bid her quickly d'on her shroud.
Page 29 - Rather had I a Jew be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty: For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession.
Page 122 - To your reputations ? where's your judgment ? 'slight, Have yet some care of me, of your republic — Face. Away, this brach ! I'll bring thee, rogue, within The statute of sorcery, tricesimo tertio Of Harry the Eighth: ay, and perhaps, thy neck Within a noose, for laundring gold and barbing it.
Page 610 - O, this gloomy world ! In what a shadow, or deep pit of darkness, Doth womanish and fearful mankind live ! Let worthy minds ne'er stagger in distrust To suffer death or shame for what is just : Mine is another voyage.