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الصفحة 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.
... 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 ...
الصفحة 24
... 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 ...
الصفحة 47
... speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid : 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 : 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 ...
الصفحة 52
... 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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Abig Abigail Antonio Arcite ARETHUSA Barabas BELLARIO blood Bosola brave brother Calymath Card CARIOLA Countryman cousin dare Daughter dear death Delio Dion doctor doth Duch duchess Duchess of Malfi Emilia Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Face fair Farewell father fear Ferd Fern fortune Gaoler gentleman Gerrold give gods gold grace hand hast hath hear heart Heaven Hippolyta honour in't Is't Itha Ithamore Jew of Malta Julia King kiss Knights lady live Lodowick look lord madam Malta Mammon master Mathias Methinks ne'er never noble Noble Kinsmen on't Palamon PESCARA PHARAMOND Philaster Pilia Pirithous pity pray prince prison Re-enter SCENE Shakespeare shalt soul speak sweet sword tell Thebes thee There's Theseus thing Thou art Thra to't twas twill unto What's Wooer
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 486 - 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 576 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 29 - Rather had I a Jew be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty: For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession.
الصفحة 122 - To your reputations ? where's your judgment ? 'slight, Have yet some care of me, of your republic — Face. Away, this brach ! I'll bring thee, rogue, within The statute of sorcery, tricesimo tertio Of Harry the Eighth: ay, and perhaps, thy neck Within a noose, for laundring gold and barbing it.
الصفحة 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.