Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes, المجلد 1E. Moxon, 1835 |
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... plays are rich in such , as scenes of passion , sometimes of the deepest quality , interesting situations , serious descriptions , that which is more nearly allied to poetry than to wit , and to tragic rather than to comic poetry . The ...
... plays are rich in such , as scenes of passion , sometimes of the deepest quality , interesting situations , serious descriptions , that which is more nearly allied to poetry than to wit , and to tragic rather than to comic poetry . The ...
الصفحة viii
... play ( the noble practice of those times ) , that of most of the writers contained in these selections it may be strictly said , that they were contemporaries . The whole period , from the middle of Elizabeth's reign to the close of the ...
... play ( the noble practice of those times ) , that of most of the writers contained in these selections it may be strictly said , that they were contemporaries . The whole period , from the middle of Elizabeth's reign to the close of the ...
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... play is stiff and cumbersome , like the dresses of its times . There may be flesh and blood underneath , but we cannot get at it . Sir Philip Sidney has praised it for its morality . One of its authors might easily furnish that . Norton ...
... play is stiff and cumbersome , like the dresses of its times . There may be flesh and blood underneath , but we cannot get at it . Sir Philip Sidney has praised it for its morality . One of its authors might easily furnish that . Norton ...
الصفحة 13
... play ( which without them is but a caput mortuum , such another piece of flat- ness as Locrine ) Hawkins , in his republication of this tragedy , has thrust out of the text into the notes ; as omitted in the Second Edition , " printed ...
... play ( which without them is but a caput mortuum , such another piece of flat- ness as Locrine ) Hawkins , in his republication of this tragedy , has thrust out of the text into the notes ; as omitted in the Second Edition , " printed ...
الصفحة 15
... play the wantons with us through the leaves . David . What tunes , what words , what looks , what wonders pierce My soul , incensed with a sudden fire ! What tree , what shade , what spring , what paradise , Enjoys the beauty of so fair ...
... play the wantons with us through the leaves . David . What tunes , what words , what looks , what wonders pierce My soul , incensed with a sudden fire ! What tree , what shade , what spring , what paradise , Enjoys the beauty of so fair ...
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Alaham beauty blessing blood breath brother Cæsar Calica Clor COMEDY Corb Court crown curse dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch earth eyes fair father Faustus fear FRANCIS BEAUMONT GEORGE CHAPMAN give gods grief hand happy hath hear heart heaven hell Heywood honour hope Jacin JAMES SHIRLEY JOHN FLETCHER JOHN MARSTON JOHN WEBSTER King kiss Lady leave live look Lord Madam maid methinks mistress Moth mother ne'er never night noble Ovid passion Peneus Phao PHILIP MASSINGER pity play pleasure poor pray Prince Queen revenge rich Sapho Shakspeare shame shew sister sleep sorrow soul speak spirit sweet tears tell thee thine thing THOMAS HEYWOOD THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art thou hast thoughts Thyestes thyself TRAGEDY true twas unto virtue weep what's Whilst wife WILLIAM ROWLEY Witch woman
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الصفحة 33 - Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me, if I sleep I never wake ; This fear is that which makes me tremble thus. And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come? Light. To rid thee of thy life ; Matrevis, come. Enter Matrevis and Gurney. Edw. I am too weak and feeble to resist : Assist me, sweet God, and receive my soul.
الصفحة 245 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
الصفحة 97 - There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is; there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.
الصفحة 45 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean- — ne'er be found.
الصفحة 39 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but...
الصفحة 44 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
الصفحة 2 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by...
الصفحة 10 - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good. Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
الصفحة 24 - I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay...
الصفحة 29 - But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? My nobles rule, I bear the name of king; I wear the crown, but am...