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Page vii
... Faithful Shepherdess . " Richard Fletcher was born in this County , " & c . Fuller's Worthies ( Kent ) , p . 72 , ed . 1662 , where there is a marginal note , " So his near relation informed me . " " Richard Fletcher D.D. is generally ...
... Faithful Shepherdess . " Richard Fletcher was born in this County , " & c . Fuller's Worthies ( Kent ) , p . 72 , ed . 1662 , where there is a marginal note , " So his near relation informed me . " " Richard Fletcher D.D. is generally ...
Page xxvii
... Faithful Shepherdess for the sake of procuring bread f ; and at that period perhaps he may have possessed some private resources ( for we are not sure that the appeal made to the crown in behalf of the bishop's orphans had been ...
... Faithful Shepherdess for the sake of procuring bread f ; and at that period perhaps he may have possessed some private resources ( for we are not sure that the appeal made to the crown in behalf of the bishop's orphans had been ...
Page xxx
... Faithful Shepherdess , both these are contrary to the character of manhood " . Grounds of Crit . in Tragedy , Ibid . p . 280 . 8 See what immediately precedes it ; " Phi . ' Twffl be ill I should abide here long " , & c . , vol . i ...
... Faithful Shepherdess , both these are contrary to the character of manhood " . Grounds of Crit . in Tragedy , Ibid . p . 280 . 8 See what immediately precedes it ; " Phi . ' Twffl be ill I should abide here long " , & c . , vol . i ...
Page xxxii
... Faithful Shepherdess is wholly by Fletcher . In composing it , he evidently had an eye to the celebrated Arcadian dramas of Tas&o and mentions " that Paradise Lost of Milton's , which some are pleased to call a Poem " . p . I43 , ed ...
... Faithful Shepherdess is wholly by Fletcher . In composing it , he evidently had an eye to the celebrated Arcadian dramas of Tas&o and mentions " that Paradise Lost of Milton's , which some are pleased to call a Poem " . p . I43 , ed ...
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... Faithful Shepherdess was submitted to the ordeal of the stage , and received , on the first night of its performance , the most decided condemnation . Its failure must have been a severe mortification to the author . He had some ...
... Faithful Shepherdess was submitted to the ordeal of the stage , and received , on the first night of its performance , the most decided condemnation . Its failure must have been a severe mortification to the author . He had some ...
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Page l - 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 358 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page li - 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 ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty...
Page lxxxv - The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments, And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune, Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done To youth and nature. This is all our world: We shall know nothing here, but one another; Hear nothing, but the clock that tells our woes. The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it : Summer shall come, and with her all delights, But dead-cold winter must inhabit here still.
Page 165 - Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to us, strong men seek it, And kings from height of all their painted glories Fall like spent exhalations to this centre : And those are fools that fear it...
Page 235 - Oh, they are two twinn'd cherries dy'd in blushes Which those fair suns above with their bright beams Reflect upon and ripen ! Sweetest beauty, Bow down those branches, that the longing taste Of the faint looker-on may meet those blessings, And taste and live.
Page 303 - Cap. Go thy ways, thou art the king of courtesy ! Fall off again, my sweet youths. Come, And every man trace to his house again, And hang his pewter up ; then to the tavern, And bring your wives in muffs.