The Best Elizabethan PlaysWilliam Roscoe Thayer Ginn, 1890 - 611 pages |
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... true descendant of the classic drama- tists , and the kinsman of the Frenchmen who , in the seven- teenth century , created the French drama on classic models . Unlike Marlowe , who sketches his plot but vaguely , and wanders ...
... true descendant of the classic drama- tists , and the kinsman of the Frenchmen who , in the seven- teenth century , created the French drama on classic models . Unlike Marlowe , who sketches his plot but vaguely , and wanders ...
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... true , and you cannot resist the fascination , the glamour- if you will- of ideals borrowed from the age of chivalry . There is , in Beaumont and Fletcher , " a constant recognition of gentility , " as Emerson has remarked ; this , and ...
... true , and you cannot resist the fascination , the glamour- if you will- of ideals borrowed from the age of chivalry . There is , in Beaumont and Fletcher , " a constant recognition of gentility , " as Emerson has remarked ; this , and ...
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... true , if they gar- ble facts . " And because Webster recognized this spiritual truth , he is profoundly moral ; and because he was able to embody it in the concrete , he is among the few supreme tragic poets of the world . In his play ...
... true , if they gar- ble facts . " And because Webster recognized this spiritual truth , he is profoundly moral ; and because he was able to embody it in the concrete , he is among the few supreme tragic poets of the world . In his play ...
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... true , my lord , therefore entreat1 him well . Bosc . Our fraught is Grecians , Turks , and Afric Moors . For late upon the coast of Corsica , Because we vailed2 not to the Turkish fleet , Their creeping galleys had us in the chase ...
... true , my lord , therefore entreat1 him well . Bosc . Our fraught is Grecians , Turks , and Afric Moors . For late upon the coast of Corsica , Because we vailed2 not to the Turkish fleet , Their creeping galleys had us in the chase ...
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... true and secret , thou shalt want no gold . But stand aside , here comes Don Lodowick . Enter LODOWICK.2 Lod . O Barbaras , well met ; Where is the diamond you told me of ? 1 Heartily . 200 210 220 2 Dyce suggests that the scene is ...
... true and secret , thou shalt want no gold . But stand aside , here comes Don Lodowick . Enter LODOWICK.2 Lod . O Barbaras , well met ; Where is the diamond you told me of ? 1 Heartily . 200 210 220 2 Dyce suggests that the scene is ...
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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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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.