Introduction. The sacrifice. The Italy of the Elizabethan dramatists. The out-door poetry. Symmetria priscaT. Fisher Unwin, 1884 - 453 Seiten |
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Seite 75 - 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. [Dies.'] PES. The noble Delio, as I came to th' palace, Told me of Antonio's being here, and show'd me A pretty gentleman, his son and heir.
Seite 152 - Vedut' ho la lucente stella diana Vedut'ho la lucente stella diana, ch'appare anzi che '1 giorno rend'albore, c'ha preso forma di figura umana, sovr'ogn'altra mi par che dea splendore; viso di neve colorato in grana occhi lucenti gai e pien d'amore; non credo che nel mondo sia cristiana sì piena di beltate e di valore.
Seite 78 - ... the darkened Italian palace, with its wrought-iron bars preventing escape ; its embroidered carpets muffling the foot steps ; its hidden, suddenly yawning trapdoors ; its arras-hangings concealing masked ruffians ; its garlands of poisoned flowers...
Seite 75 - t, ere I came. Let us make noble use Of this great ruin ; and join all our force To establish this young hopeful gentleman In 's mother's right. These wretched eminent things Leave no more fame behind 'em, than should one Fall in a frost, and leave his print in snow; As soon as the sun shines, it ever melts, Both form and matter.
Seite 101 - Shall a peevish sound, A customary form, from man to man, Of brother and of sister, be a bar 'Twixt my perpetual happiness and me ? Say that we had one father, say one womb (Curse to my joys !) gave both us life and birth ; Are we not, therefore, each to other bound...
Seite 68 - t can kiss the hand, and cry, " Sweet lady" > Say, it had been at Rome, and seen the relics, Drunk your Verdea wine...
Seite 106 - And nuzzled twixt the breastes of happinesse) Who winkes, and shuts his apprehension up From common sense of what men were, and are, Who would not knowe what men must be ; let such Hurrie amaine from our black visag'd showes : We shall affright their eyes.
Seite 193 - ... of straight lines, and broken lines, and curves. He sees all this ; but he sees more : the broken torso is, as we have said, not merely a world in itself, but the revelation of a world. It is the revelation of antique civilization, of the palaestra and the stadium, of the sanctification of the body, of the apotheosis of man, of the religion of life and nature and joy ; revealed to the man of the Middle Ages, who has hitherto seen in the untrained, diseased, despised body but a deformed piece...
Seite 87 - ... surrounding influences, whether bad or good, which resulted in her great men combining high qualities with stupendous crimes, being distingished for love of art and literature and noble compositions, as well as for unspeakable wickedness of every kind. " So the Italians, steeped in the sin of their country, remained intellectually healthy and serene ; while the English, coming from a purer moral atmosphere, were seized with strange moral sickness of horror at what they had seen and could not...
Seite 86 - English playwrights : the fratricides and incests, the frightful crimes of lust and blood which haunted and half crazed the genius of Tourneur and Marston ? Where in this brilliant and courteous and humane and civilized nation are the gigantic villains whose terrible features were drawn with such superb awfulness of touch by Webster and Ford ? Where in this Renaissance of Italian literature, so cheerful and light of conscience, is the foul and savage Renaissance of English tragedy : Does the art...