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The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Volume 1) ~ Paperbound - Page 165
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...is, but all oblivion, Dust and an endless darkness : and dare you, woman, Desire this place ? O. 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest : Children begin it to...glories Fall, like spent exhalations, to this centre. . . . T. Then you can suffer ? O. As willingly as say it. T. Martell, a wonder ! Here's a woman that...
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The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2

Francis Beaumont - 1872 - 762 pages
...but all oblivion, Dust and an endless darkness : And dare you, Desire this place I [woman, Ord. "fis of all sleeps the sweetest : Children begin it to...their painted glories Fall, like spent exhalations, tu this centre : And those are fools that fear it, or imagine A few unhandsome pleasures, or life's...
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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece

John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 456 pages
...but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness, and dare you, woman, Desire this place ? Ord. 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to...glories Fall like spent exhalations to this centre. There the poet should have stopped, for exquisite thoughts have hitherto been rendered in exquisite...
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Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe: Palermo, Syracuse and Girgenti ...

John Addington Symonds - 1880 - 404 pages
...but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness ; and dare you, woman, Desire this place ? Ont. 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to...glories Fall like spent exhalations to this centre. There the poet should have stopped, for exquisite thoughts have hitherto been rendered in exquisite...
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Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1880 - 406 pages
...dare you, woman, Desire this plaee ? Ortl. "Pis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to ns, strong men seek it, And kings from height of all their...painted glories Fall like spent exhalations to this eentre. There the poet should have stopped, for exquisite thoughts have hitherto been rendered in exquisite...
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Dramatic scenes and characters

William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 386 pages
...all oblivion, Dust and an endless darkness : and dare you, woman ! Desire this place ? Ordel. 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to...profits, Can recompense this place ; and mad that stay it, Till age blow out their lights, or rotten humours Bring them dispersed to the earth. Thier. Then...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4

John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 pages
...acceptable as an escape from life, but in itself desirable, relieve the sternness of the picture : T is of all sleeps the sweetest : Children begin it to...seek it, And kings from height of all their painted glory Fall like spent exhalations to this centre. Why should the soul of man dread death ? These fears...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare ...

Charles Lamb - 1887 - 584 pages
...you, woman, Desire this place ? Ordel. 'Tis of all sleeps the sweetest; Thier. Then you can suffer ? Children begin it to us, strong men seek it, And kings...profits, Can recompense this place; and mad that stay it, Till age blow out their lights, or rotten humours Bring them dispersed to the earth. Ordel. As...
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Beaumont & Fletcher, Volume 1

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1887 - 526 pages
...dust." When I listen to what Ordella says of death, I think I know the voice is Fletcher's : — " Tis of all sleeps the sweetest ; Children begin it to...And kings, from height of all their painted glories, Kali, like spent exhalations, to this centre ; And those are fools that fear it, or imagine A few unhandsome...
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The Theatre, Volume 2

1887 - 534 pages
...is conveyed in these lines from John Fletcher : 11 ' Tis of all sleeps the sweetest. Children bring it to us. strong men seek it, And kings, from height...painted glories, Fall like spent exhalations to this center. And they be fools who fear it, or imagine A few unhandsome pleasures or life's profits Can...
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