The Best Elizabethan Plays ...William Roscoe Thayer Ginn & Company, 1895 - 609 pages |
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... hand , the tedious moralities and the loosely spun miracle plays , they soon improved upon them , soon invented a ... hands , blank verse became the peer of the Homeric hexameter , and of Dante's terza rima , a metre superior to that ...
... hand , the tedious moralities and the loosely spun miracle plays , they soon improved upon them , soon invented a ... hands , blank verse became the peer of the Homeric hexameter , and of Dante's terza rima , a metre superior to that ...
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... hands ? 1st Bas . Know , Knights of Malta , that we came from Rhodes , From Cyprus , Candy , and those other Isles That lie betwixt the Mediterranean seas . Fern . What's Cyprus , Candy , and those other Isles To us , or Malta ? What at ...
... hands ? 1st Bas . Know , Knights of Malta , that we came from Rhodes , From Cyprus , Candy , and those other Isles That lie betwixt the Mediterranean seas . Fern . What's Cyprus , Candy , and those other Isles To us , or Malta ? What at ...
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... hands with 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 . You have my wealth , the labour of my life , The comfort of mine age ...
... hands with 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 . You have my wealth , the labour of my life , The comfort of mine age ...
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... dismal shades , Light Abraham's offspring ; and direct the hand Of Abigail this night ; or let the day Turn to eternal darkness after this ! 10 No sleep can fasten on my watchful eyes , Nor 46 [ ACT II . THE JEW OF MALTA .
... dismal shades , Light Abraham's offspring ; and direct the hand Of Abigail this night ; or let the day Turn to eternal darkness after this ! 10 No sleep can fasten on my watchful eyes , Nor 46 [ ACT II . THE JEW OF MALTA .
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... hand , whose heart I'll have ; Ay , and his son's too , or it shall go hard . I am not of the tribe of Levi , I , That can so soon forget an injury . We Jews can fawn like spaniels when we please : And when we grin we bite , yet are our ...
... hand , whose heart I'll have ; Ay , and his son's too , or it shall go hard . I am not of the tribe of Levi , I , That can so soon forget an injury . We Jews can fawn like spaniels when we please : And when we grin we bite , yet are our ...
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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 |
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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 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 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...
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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 541 - If thou do wish thy lecher may grow old In thy embracements, I would have thee build Such a room for him as our anchorites To holier use inhabit. Let not the sun Shine on him till he's dead- let dogs and monkeys Only converse with him, and such dumb things To whom nature denies use to sound his name; Do not keep a paraquito, lest she learn it; If thou do love him, cut out thine own tongue, Lest it bewray him.
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.
Page 487 - 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.