The Best Elizabethan PlaysWilliam Roscoe Thayer Ginn, 1890 - 611 pages |
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... Duchess of Malfi are read , so long will John Web- ster's title to rank among the four or five supreme tragic writers of the world be open to the scrutiny of all . It has been the fashion of some critics to speak PREFACE . 15.
... Duchess of Malfi are read , so long will John Web- ster's title to rank among the four or five supreme tragic writers of the world be open to the scrutiny of all . It has been the fashion of some critics to speak PREFACE . 15.
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William Roscoe Thayer. It has been the fashion of some critics to speak of Webster as a strange and terrible genius , a sort of ogre who delighted in bloody scenes by day , and supped nightly with horrors ; or as a fellow of morbid ...
William Roscoe Thayer. It has been the fashion of some critics to speak of Webster as a strange and terrible genius , a sort of ogre who delighted in bloody scenes by day , and supped nightly with horrors ; or as a fellow of morbid ...
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... speak openly against my books , Yet they will read me , and thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off , Are poisoned by my climbing followers . I count religion but a childish toy , And hold there is no sin but ...
... speak openly against my books , Yet they will read me , and thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off , Are poisoned by my climbing followers . I count religion but a childish toy , And hold there is no sin but ...
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... speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid : 2 And now methinks that I am one of those : For whilst I live , here lives my soul's sole hope , And , when I die , here shall my spirit walk ...
... speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid : 2 And now methinks that I am one of those : For whilst I live , here lives my soul's sole hope , And , when I die , here shall my spirit walk ...
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... speak with Gentiles like to you , We turn into the air to purge ourselves : For unto us the promise doth belong . Lod . Well , Barabas , canst help me to a diamond ? Bar . O , sir , your father had my diamonds . Yet I have one left that ...
... speak with Gentiles like to you , We turn into the air to purge ourselves : For unto us the promise doth belong . Lod . Well , Barabas , canst help me to a diamond ? Bar . O , sir , your father had my diamonds . Yet I have one left that ...
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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 575 - What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits...
Page 143 - This night I'll change All that is metal, in my house, to gold : And early in the morning will I send To all the plumbers and the pewterers, And buy their tin and lead up ; and to Lothbury For all the copper.
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 110 - But now begins the extremity of heat To pinch me with intolerable pangs : Die, life ! fly, soul ! tongue, curse thy fill, and die ! [Dies.
Page 581 - While with vain hopes our faculties we tire, We seem to sweat in ice and freeze in fire. What would I do, were this to do again ? 330 I would not change my peace of conscience For all the wealth of Europe.
Page 160 - Would burst a man to name ? Sub. And all these named, Intending but one thing: which art our writers Used to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him — Because the simple idiot should not learn it. And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge Of the .(Egyptians writ in mystic symbols ? Speak not the scriptures oft in parables ? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapp'd in perplexed allegories ? Mam.