The Dramatic Works of John Webster, Količina 1J. Smith, 1857 - 267 strani |
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... Exit . Suff . Past physic's help ! why then past hope of life . Here comes his Highness ' preacher : Life , reverent man— Enter PREACHER . Preach . Life , life , though death his body do dissever ; Our king lives with the King of Heaven ...
... Exit . Suff . Past physic's help ! why then past hope of life . Here comes his Highness ' preacher : Life , reverent man— Enter PREACHER . Preach . Life , life , though death his body do dissever ; Our king lives with the King of Heaven ...
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... Exit Treasurer . Porter . My heart misgives me I have done amiss ; Yet being a councillor , one of the number , Nothing can prove amiss . Now shall I know the worst ; Here comes my lord of Arundel . Enter ARUNDEL . Arun . Porter , did ...
... Exit Treasurer . Porter . My heart misgives me I have done amiss ; Yet being a councillor , one of the number , Nothing can prove amiss . Now shall I know the worst ; Here comes my lord of Arundel . Enter ARUNDEL . Arun . Porter , did ...
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... Exit . North . Come they in thunder , we will meet with them : In the loudest language that their ordnance speaks , Ours shall answer theirs . Call me a herald , and in the market - place proclaim Queen Jane . The streets are full , The ...
... Exit . North . Come they in thunder , we will meet with them : In the loudest language that their ordnance speaks , Ours shall answer theirs . Call me a herald , and in the market - place proclaim Queen Jane . The streets are full , The ...
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... Exit . Clown . O poor shrimp , how art thou fallen away for want of mouching ! O , colon1 cries out most tyrannically ! the little gut hath no mercy . What's here ? victuals ! O rare , O good ! Feed chops , drink throat , good victuals ...
... Exit . Clown . O poor shrimp , how art thou fallen away for want of mouching ! O , colon1 cries out most tyrannically ! the little gut hath no mercy . What's here ? victuals ! O rare , O good ! Feed chops , drink throat , good victuals ...
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... Exit . 2 Enter QUEEN MARY , WINCHESTER , NORFOLK , PEM- BROKE , WYAT , ARUNDEL , and ATTENDANTS . Q. Mary . By God's assistance and the power of heaven , After our troubles we are safely set In our inheritance ; for which we do ...
... Exit . 2 Enter QUEEN MARY , WINCHESTER , NORFOLK , PEM- BROKE , WYAT , ARUNDEL , and ATTENDANTS . Q. Mary . By God's assistance and the power of heaven , After our troubles we are safely set In our inheritance ; for which we do ...
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Stran 270 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. RICHARD HOOPER.
Stran 268 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Stran 268 - The Vision of Piers Ploughman' is one of the most precious and interesting monuments of the English Language and Literature, and also of the social and political condition of the country during the fourteenth century. . . . Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about the year 1362. On this and on all matters bearing upon the origin and object of the poem, Mr, Wright's historical introduction gives ample information In the thirteen years...
Stran 267 - The edition deserves well of the public ; it is carefully printed, and the annotations, although neither numerous nor extensive, supply ample explanations upon a variety of interesting points. If Mr. Halliwell had done no more than collect these plays, he would have conferred a boon upon all lovers of our old dramatic poetry.
Stran 270 - He covers his defects with a daring, fiery spirit, that animates his translation, which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
Stran 105 - A log of wood is brought into the midst of the room : this is dun (the cart-horse), and a cry is raised, that he is stuck in the mire. Two of the company advance, either with or without ropes, to draw him out. After repeated attempts, they find themselves unable to do it, and call for more assistance. — The game continues till all the company take part in it, when dun is extricated of course ; and the merriment arises from (he awkward and affected efforts of the rustics to lift the log, and from...
Stran 269 - Had this little book been written at Athens or Rome, its author would have been classed with the wise men of his country."— Headley.
Stran xiv - 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
Stran 268 - Nothing can be more interesting than this little book, containing a lively picture of the opinions and conversations of one of the most eminent scholars and most distinguished patriots England has produced, living at a period the most eventful of our history.