The Ancient British Drama ...Walter Scott W. Miller, 1810 - 614 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... the sword - dance with any morrice - dancer in Christendom ; ride at the ring , till the fin of his eyes look as blue as the 21 Metreza - i . e . mistress . S. P. Jac . You run ! Mal . To the MARSTON . ] 7 THE MALCONTENT .
... the sword - dance with any morrice - dancer in Christendom ; ride at the ring , till the fin of his eyes look as blue as the 21 Metreza - i . e . mistress . S. P. Jac . You run ! Mal . To the MARSTON . ] 7 THE MALCONTENT .
Pagina 33
... mistress in reversion , his clothes in rever- sion , his wit in reversion ; and , indeed , he is a suitor to me for my dog in reversion ; but in good verity , la , he is as proper a gentleman in rever sion as and indeed as fine a man as ...
... mistress in reversion , his clothes in rever- sion , his wit in reversion ; and , indeed , he is a suitor to me for my dog in reversion ; but in good verity , la , he is as proper a gentleman in rever sion as and indeed as fine a man as ...
Pagina 78
... Mistress What - lack - you . — Because she was the apprentice's wife , whose phrase , when walking be- fore his master's door , was , " What lack you , Sir . " See p . 67. S. P. 32 With a wanion t'ye ! —See Note 10. to The City - Night ...
... Mistress What - lack - you . — Because she was the apprentice's wife , whose phrase , when walking be- fore his master's door , was , " What lack you , Sir . " See p . 67. S. P. 32 With a wanion t'ye ! —See Note 10. to The City - Night ...
Pagina 80
... Mistress Syndery . [ Exeunt . Sir Pet . O tedious voyage , whereof there is no end ! What will they think of me ? Quick . Think what they list ; they long'd for a vagary into the country , and now they are fitted ; so a woman marry to ...
... Mistress Syndery . [ Exeunt . Sir Pet . O tedious voyage , whereof there is no end ! What will they think of me ? Quick . Think what they list ; they long'd for a vagary into the country , and now they are fitted ; so a woman marry to ...
Pagina 86
... mistress Security ? Quick . Faith , gone quite from her name , as she is from her fame , I think ; I left her to the mercy of the water . Sea . Let her go , let her go ; let us go to our ship at Blackwall , and shift us . Sir Pet . Nay ...
... mistress Security ? Quick . Faith , gone quite from her name , as she is from her fame , I think ; I left her to the mercy of the water . Sea . Let her go , let her go ; let us go to our ship at Blackwall , and shift us . Sir Pet . Nay ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 577 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Pagina 117 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute? Why does yon...
Pagina 447 - More distress'd in this Than all my troubles ! Hale me back, Double my irons, and my sparing meals Put into halves, and lodge me in a dungeon More deep, more dark, more cold, more comfortless ! By Acton freed! Not all thy manacles Could fetter so my heels, as this one word Hath thrall'd my heart; and it must now lie bound In more strict prison than thy stony gaol.
Pagina 539 - ... his nature, in his time, of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the city : and so with this brief character of his memory I commit him to his rest.
Pagina 118 - Thou may'st lie chaste now! It were fine, methinks To have thee seen at revels, forgetful feasts And unclean brothels; sure 'twould fright the sinner And make him a good coward, put a reveller Out of his antic amble, And cloy an epicure with empty dishes. Here might a scornful and ambitious woman Look through and through herself; see, ladies with false forms You deceive men, but cannor deceive worms.
Pagina 59 - Fortune, the great commandress of the world> Hath divers ways to advance her followers : To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour...
Pagina 131 - This murder might have slept in tongueless brass But for ourselves, and the world died an ass. Now I remember too, here was Piato Brought forth a knavish sentence once ; No doubt (said he), but time Will make the murderer bring forth himself. 'Tis well he died ; he was a witch.
Pagina 431 - Bastard without a father to acknowledge it ; true it is that my plays are not exposed to the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others *) : one reason is, that many of them by shifting and change of companies, have been negligently lost. Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print, and a third that it never was any great ambition in me to be in this kind voluminously read.
Pagina 38 - ... 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 a heap of rubbish.
Pagina 199 - Roses and bays, pack hence ! this crown and robe, My brows and body circles and invests. How gallantly it fits me! sure the slave Measured my head that wrought this coronet They lie, that say complexions cannot change ; My blood's ennobled, and I am transform'd Unto the sacred temper of a king.