Bussy D'Ambois: And The Revenge of Bussy D'AmboisD. C. Heath & Company, 1905 - 332 Seiten |
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ACTUS Aumale Baligny Barrisor beleeve bloud Brantôme brave brother Buss Bussy D'Ambois Bussy's Cambray Chal Chapman Char Cler Clermont Clermont D'Ambois command Count of Auvergne Countesse Court courtier D'Eurre deare death Dilke dores doth Duchess Duchess of Guise Duke of Anjou Duke of Guise earth Emend Enter Epictetus Exeunt Exit eyes farre feare flye France Frier GEORGE CHAPMAN give grace greatnesse Grimeston's hand hath heart heaven Henr Henry honour honour'd husband King lady live lord madam Maff Mail Maillard mistresse Mons Monsieur Mont Montsurry Montsurry's murther never night noble omits play pray Prince quarto Renel Revenge of Bussy SCANA SCENA selfe servant shee shew souldiers soule spirit sunne Tamyra thee things thinke thou thought tragedy true truth valour vertue vertuous wife words worthy wreake y'are yeeld
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Seite viii - was a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet.
Seite xxv - D'Amboys upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly; nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten; and, to sum up all, uncorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense ; or, at best, a scantling of...
Seite 38 - I am wrong'd, and that law fails to right me, Let me be king myself (as man was made), And do a justice that exceeds the law...
Seite 153 - A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver; there would this monster make a man: any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Seite xxv - ... was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten; and, to sum up all, uncorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense ; or, at best, a scantling of wit, which lay gasping for life, and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish. A famous modern poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil's Manes; and I have indignation enough to...
Seite 56 - ... ignorance tames us, that we let His shadows fright us : and like empty clouds, In which our faulty apprehensions forge The forms of dragons, lions, elephants, When they hold no proportion, the sly charms Of the witch policy...
Seite 40 - Here high, and glorious as it did contend To wash the heavens and make the stars more pure ; And here so low, it leaves the mud of hell To every common view; come, Count Montsurry, We must consult of this.
Seite 34 - D'Ambois seeing, as I once did see In my young travels through Armenia, An angry unicorn in his full career Charge with too swift a foot a jeweller That watch'd him for the treasure of his brow, And, ere he could get shelter of a tree, Nail him with his rich antler to the earth, So D'Ambois ran upon reveng'd L'Anou, Who eyeing th...
Seite 43 - Have two strings to a bow ; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women,) Be worse provided than a common archer? A husband and a friend all wise wives have.
Seite 127 - The clear light out of crystal on dark earth, And hurl'st instructive fire about the world, Wake, wake the drowsy and enchanted night, That sleeps with dead eyes in this heavy riddle...