John Webster and the Elizabethan DramaJohn Lane Company, 1916 - 276 من الصفحات Describes how certain animals keep warm, how the human body loses and retains its heat, and how various types of clothing and dwellings aid in heat retention. |
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... plays , music , society , or life , are ready with an equal cheerfulness to ask or to answer . They may be right ; but to me they seem to make a gigantic , unconscious , and probably unjustifi- able assumption 15 PREFACE CHAPTER THE ...
... plays , music , society , or life , are ready with an equal cheerfulness to ask or to answer . They may be right ; but to me they seem to make a gigantic , unconscious , and probably unjustifi- able assumption 15 PREFACE CHAPTER THE ...
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Rupert Brooke. a gigantic , unconscious , and probably unjustifi- able assumption . It is quite doubtful , and it is nowadays continually more doubted , whether the word " Art " has properly any meaning at all . But it has so obsessed ...
Rupert Brooke. a gigantic , unconscious , and probably unjustifi- able assumption . It is quite doubtful , and it is nowadays continually more doubted , whether the word " Art " has properly any meaning at all . But it has so obsessed ...
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... probably true about drama to spheres where it is desperately irrelevant . It is said that the figure of Helen , whom men have so eagerly followed and sought , was a phantasm , covered by which there lurked , in fact , a knot of ...
... probably true about drama to spheres where it is desperately irrelevant . It is said that the figure of Helen , whom men have so eagerly followed and sought , was a phantasm , covered by which there lurked , in fact , a knot of ...
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... probably less dramatic Teutonic scop . These minstrels were a great feature of the whole mediæval period , but their importance in the history of the theatre has always been under - estimated . There are two reasons , I think . One is ...
... probably less dramatic Teutonic scop . These minstrels were a great feature of the whole mediæval period , but their importance in the history of the theatre has always been under - estimated . There are two reasons , I think . One is ...
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... probably suc- ceeded in degrading them to a low level . But they must have prepared the mind of the people to expect certain things in tragedy or comedy ; and they may account for various aspects of Elizabethan plays that neither the ...
... probably suc- ceeded in degrading them to a low level . But they must have prepared the mind of the people to expect certain things in tragedy or comedy ; and they may account for various aspects of Elizabethan plays that neither the ...
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الصفحة 202 - Bastard without a father to acknowledge it ; true it is that my plays are not exposed to the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others *) : one reason is, that many of them by shifting and change of companies, have been negligently lost. Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print, and a third that it never was any great ambition in me to be in this kind voluminously read.
الصفحة 155 - Some would think the souls of princes were brought forth by some more weighty cause than those of meaner persons : they are deceived...
الصفحة 151 - I'll join with thee in a most just revenge: The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes With the sword of justice.
الصفحة 107 - I am puzzled in a question about hell : He says, in hell there's one material fire, And yet it shall not burn all men alike. Lay him by. How tedious is a guilty conscience ! When I look into the fish-ponds in my garden, Methinks I see a thing armed with a rake, That seems to strike at me.
الصفحة 108 - What dost think on ? Flam. Nothing ; of nothing : leave thy idle questions. I am i' the way to study a long silence : To prate were idle. I remember nothing. There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts.
الصفحة 277 - The White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
الصفحة 102 - Come, come, you have wronged her : What a strange credulous man were you, my lord, To think the Duke of Florence would love her ! 'Will any mercer take another's ware When once 'tis...
الصفحة 111 - With what a compell'd face a woman sits While she is drawing ! I have noted divers Either to feign smiles, or suck in the lips, To have a little mouth ; ruffle the cheeks, To have the dimple seen ; and so disorder The face with affectation, at next sitting It has not been the same : I have known others Have lost the entire fashion of their face In half an hour's sitting...
الصفحة 156 - Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtle's feathers ; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses. So perfect shall be thy happiness, that as men at sea think land, and trees, and ships, go that way they go; so both heaven and earth shall seem to go your voyage.
الصفحة 214 - The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat. With the Coronation of Queen Mary, and the coming in of King Philip.