Elizabethan Dramatists: Marlows̓ "Dr. Faustus", Jonsons̓ "Every Man in His Humour", Beaumont and Fletchers̓ "Philaster"George Ansel Watrous T.Y. Crowell & Company, 1903 - 293 pages |
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... hear . For the play was the thing , rich in fervid eloquence and beautiful de- scription . A penny gained admission and twopence would buy a place among the groundlings or “ stink- ards , " as the poorer frequenters of public theatres ...
... hear . For the play was the thing , rich in fervid eloquence and beautiful de- scription . A penny gained admission and twopence would buy a place among the groundlings or “ stink- ards , " as the poorer frequenters of public theatres ...
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... hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms , And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword . View but his picture in this tragic glass , And then applaud his fortune as you please . " Marlowe did ...
... hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms , And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword . View but his picture in this tragic glass , And then applaud his fortune as you please . " Marlowe did ...
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... hear one rack the name of God , Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ , We fly in hope to get his glorious soul ; Nor will we come , unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damned : Therefore the shortest cut for ...
... hear one rack the name of God , Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ , We fly in hope to get his glorious soul ; Nor will we come , unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damned : Therefore the shortest cut for ...
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... hear , sir ? You may save that labour : they are too familiar with me already : swowns ! they are as bold with my flesh as if they had paid for their meat and drink . Wag . Well , do you hear , sirrah ? Hold ! take these guilders.4 ...
... hear , sir ? You may save that labour : they are too familiar with me already : swowns ! they are as bold with my flesh as if they had paid for their meat and drink . Wag . Well , do you hear , sirrah ? Hold ! take these guilders.4 ...
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... hear if I should serve you , would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos ? Wag . I will teach thee to turn thyself to anything ; to a dog , or a cat , or a mouse , or a rat , or anything . Clown . How ! a Christian fellow to a ...
... hear if I should serve you , would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos ? Wag . I will teach thee to turn thyself to anything ; to a dog , or a cat , or a mouse , or a rat , or anything . Clown . How ! a Christian fellow to a ...
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ARETHUSA art thou bastinado BELLARIO BEN JONSON blood Bobadill Brai Brainworm brave Brid brother captain Cash Clem CLEREMONT Clown Cob's Dame dear devil Dion Doctor Faustus doth Downright Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith Faustus fear fellow fetch FRANCIS BEAUMONT GALATEA gentleman give gods grace hath hear heart Heaven hell honour Horse-C humour Jonson justice Clement King Kitely Know KNOWELL lady live look lord Lucifer madam Marry Master Doctor master Mathew master Stephen MEGRA Meph Mephistophilis mistress ne'er never noble Old Jewry PHARAMOND pray prince princess rapier Reënter Robin SCENE Schol servant sirrah sister soldier soul speak spirit Step swear sweet sword Tamburlaine tell thee there's Thomas thou art thou hast thou shalt thought Thra THRASILINE unto warrant Wellbred What's wife worship
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Page 59 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul! See, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 68 - Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine. My Ben ! Or come again, Or send to us Thy wit's great overplus ; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it, Lest we that talent spend ; And having once brought to an end That precious stock, — the store Of such a wit the world should have no more.
Page ix - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 14 - Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; Sometimes like women or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Page 10 - All things that move between the quiet poles /Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Page xvi - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
Page 63 - O, no end is limited to damned souls. Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal that thou hast? Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis — were that true, This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast.
Page 13 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Page 35 - Nor will I henceforth : pardon me in this, And Faustus vows never to look to heaven, Never to name God, or to pray to Him, To burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers, And make my spirits pull his churches down.
Page 19 - For, when we hear one rack the name of God, Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, We fly, in hope, to get his glorious soul ; Nor will we come, unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd.