The Dramatic Works of John Webster, Količina 1J. Smith, 1857 - 267 strani |
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... fairest roof of honour ? Guild . See how thy blood keeps course with mine : Thou must be a queen , ay me , a queen ! i . e . Are not content to be . The flattering bells , that shrilly sound At the king's 8 THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF.
... fairest roof of honour ? Guild . See how thy blood keeps course with mine : Thou must be a queen , ay me , a queen ! i . e . Are not content to be . The flattering bells , that shrilly sound At the king's 8 THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF.
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... blood That covets to be royal leaves off ere it be noble . My learned , careful1 king , what , must we go ? Guild . We must . Jane . Then it must be so . North . Set forward , then . [ A dead march , and pass round the stage , and ...
... blood That covets to be royal leaves off ere it be noble . My learned , careful1 king , what , must we go ? Guild . We must . Jane . Then it must be so . North . Set forward , then . [ A dead march , and pass round the stage , and ...
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... blood , Till all the harbour seem'd a sanguine pool . Or we desire these arms were now to war ' Gainst the perfidious northern enemy , Who , trembling at our first shock , voice , and sight , Like cowards turn'd their backs with ...
... blood , Till all the harbour seem'd a sanguine pool . Or we desire these arms were now to war ' Gainst the perfidious northern enemy , Who , trembling at our first shock , voice , and sight , Like cowards turn'd their backs with ...
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... blood ; nay griev'd You could not spend them in my service ; i . e . The commission under which he had been acting . i . e . Place at my owning , or disposal . O , then it was a double death to stay SIR THOMAS WYAT . 25.
... blood ; nay griev'd You could not spend them in my service ; i . e . The commission under which he had been acting . i . e . Place at my owning , or disposal . O , then it was a double death to stay SIR THOMAS WYAT . 25.
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... blood . Enter HOMES , with a halter about his neck . But stay , who's here ? more sheriffs , more searchers ? O no , this is Homes , that betrayed his honest master : how , with a halter about his neck ! I hope he doth not mean to hang ...
... blood . Enter HOMES , with a halter about his neck . But stay , who's here ? more sheriffs , more searchers ? O no , this is Homes , that betrayed his honest master : how , with a halter about his neck ! I hope he doth not mean to hang ...
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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.