The Works of George Chapman ..., Volume 1

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Chatto and Windus, 1874

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Pagina 461 - And then you shall live freely there, without sargeants, or courtiers, or lawyers, or intelligencers [only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Pagina 448 - How should their humors be fed but by white meat and cunning secondings? Well, the city might consider us. I am going to an « ordinary now: the gallants fall to play; I carry light gold with me; the gallants call, 'Cousin Frank, some gold for silver!'; I change, gain by it; the gallants lose the gold, and then call, 'Cousin Frank, lend me some silver!
Pagina 175 - Prop me, true sword, as thou hast ever done! The equal thought I bear of life and death Shall make me faint on no side; I am up; Here like a Roman statue I will stand Till death hath made me marble.
Pagina 233 - I am a nobler substance than the stars ; And shall the baser over-rule the better ? Or are they better since they are the bigger...
Pagina 183 - Nay, we must now have nothing brought on stages But puppetry, and pied ridiculous antics. Men thither come to laugh, and feed fool-fat; Check at all goodness there, as being profaned : When, wheresoever Goodness comes, she makes The place still sacred, though with other feet Never so much 'tis scandal'd and polluted. Let me learn any thing, that fits a man, In any stables shown, as well as stages.
Pagina 47 - And therefore is not to all eyes the same, But like a cozening picture, which one way Shows like a crow, another like a swan.
Pagina 154 - It is not I, but urgent destiny. That (as great statesmen for their general end In politic justice, make poor men offend) Enforceth my offence to make it just. "» What shall weak dames do, when th...
Pagina 233 - There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is, — there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.
Pagina 149 - To right and expiate ; then be you my king, And do a right, exceeding law and nature: Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Pagina 71 - 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 ; Some wit, some wealth, and some wit without wealth...

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