The Best Elizabethan Plays ...William Roscoe Thayer Ginn & Company, 1895 - 609 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abig Abigail Antonio Arcite ARETHUSA Barabas BELLARIO blood Bosola brave brother Calymath Card Countryman cousin Daughter dear death Delio Dion doctor doth Duch duchess Duchess of Malfi Emilia Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Face fair faith Farewell father fear Ferd Fern fortune Gaoler gentleman Gerrold give gods gold grace hast hath hear heart Heaven Hippolyta honour in't is't Itha Ithamore Jew of Malta Julia King kiss Knights lady live Lodowick look lord madam Malta Mammon master Mathias Methinks ne'er never noble NOBLE KINSMEN on't Palamon PESCARA PHARAMOND Philaster Pilia Pirithous pray prince prison Queen Re-enter SCENE Shakespeare shalt soul speak sweet sword tell Thebes thee There's Theseus thing Thou art Thra twas twill unto What's Wooer ΙΟ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 574 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Seite 575 - What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits...
Seite 574 - Twas to bring you By degrees to mortification. Listen. Hark, now every thing is still The screech-owl and the whistler shrill Call upon our dame aloud, And bid her quickly don her shroud...
Seite 15 - I have ever truly cherished my good opinion of other men's worthy labours ; especially of that full and heightened style of Master Chapman ; the laboured and understanding works of Master Jonson ; the no less worthy composures of the both worthily excellent Master Beaumont and Master Fletcher...
Seite 158 - Some do believe hermaphrodeity, That both do act and suffer. But these two Make the rest ductile, malleable, extensive. And even in gold they are ; for we do find Seeds of them by our fire, and gold in them; And can produce the species of each metal More perfect thence, than nature doth in earth.
Seite 610 - 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.
Seite 581 - While with vain hopes our faculties we tire, We seem to sweat in ice and freeze in fire. What would I do, were this to do again? 330 I would not change my peace of conscience For all the wealth of Europe.
Seite 160 - Would burst a man to name ? Sub. And all these named, Intending but one thing: which art our writers Used to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him — Because the simple idiot should not learn it. And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge Of the .(Egyptians writ in mystic symbols ? Speak not the scriptures oft in parables ? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapp'd in perplexed allegories ? Mam.
Seite 25 - And in his house heap pearls like pebble-stones, Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, 30 May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity.
Seite 146 - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th