Bussy D'Ambois: And, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

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Heath, 1905 - 332 Seiten
 

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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 viii - most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet.
Seite xxv - D'Ambois" 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...
Seite xxv - 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 wit, which lay gasping for life, and groaning beneath...
Seite 13 - Pray do so, That you may use me better ; for yourself, By your no better outside, I would judge you To be some poet ; have you given my lord Some pamphlet?
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 123 - And (since it lets them pass through) let it stand; But a tree solid (since it gives no way To their wild rage) they rend up by the root; So this whole man (That will not wind with every crooked way, Trod by the servile world) shall reel and fall Before the frantic puffs of blind-born chance, That pipes through empty men, and makes them dance Not so the sea raves on the Lybian sands, Tumbling her billows in each others...
Seite 6 - In tall ships richly built and ribb'd with brass, To put a girdle round about the world, When they have done it (coming near their haven) Are fain to give a...
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 136 - Then these divines are but for form, not fact : Man is of two sweet courtly friends compact, A mistress and a servant : let my death Define life nothing but a courtier's breath. 85 Nothing is made of nought, of all things made, Their abstract being a dream but of a shade.

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