Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: With an Appendix, Containing Some Further Observations on Shakespeare, Extended to the Late Editions of Malone and SteevensV. Griffiths, 1798 - 467 pages |
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Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: With an Appendix, Containing ... John Monck Mason Affichage du livre entier - 1797 |
Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix ..., Volume 2 John Monck Mason Affichage du livre entier - 1798 |
Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix, Containing ... John Monck Mason Aucun aperçu disponible - 2016 |
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adopted agree alludes amendment answer appears authority bear beauty believe better blood break certainly changed clearly common consider danger dare death doubt edition evidently explanation expression eyes fair father fear fool force former fortune frequently give Gods hand heaven honour hope intended King lady language last Editors last line leave light live look Malone master means to say mind nature necessary never noble nonsense occurs old reading opinion Page passage person play Poets pointed prefer present present reading probably proposes prove reason requires rest right in reading scene second folio sense Seward Seward's edition shew speak speech stands Steevens suppose surely sword Sympson tell thee Theobald thing thou true reading truth wishes woman word worthy wrong young
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Page 49 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 4 - Nay, himself, with long and continual counterfeiting, and with oft telling a lie, was turned by habit almost into the thing he seemed to be ; and from a liar to a believer.
Page 11 - Thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none; For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, The mere effusion of thy proper loins, Do curse the gout, serpigo...
Page 54 - Women are angels, wooing : Things won are done ; joy's soul lies in the doing : That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this : Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue. Therefore this maxim out of love I teach : Achievement is command ; ungain'd, beseech...
Page 181 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 240 - And yet she sware, and yet why did she swear ? Truly I cannot tell, unless it were For her own ease ; for sure sometimes an oath, Being sworn thereafter, is like cordial broth : And this it was she swore, never to marry, But such a one whose mighty arm could carry (As meaning me, for I am...
Page 90 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 45 - Oh great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world 0' the plurisy of people; I do take Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name To my design march boldly.
Page 394 - ... marble, two fountains that spout water one round the other like a pyramid, upon which are perched small birds that stream water out of their bills : In the grove of Diana is a very agreeable fountain, with Actaeon turned into a stag, as he was sprinkled by the goddess and her nymphs, with inscriptions.
Page 7 - I must put in for that, since out tried friendship Hath lasted from our infancy. Belg. I have served Under your command, and you have seen me fight, And handsomely, though I say it ; and if now, At this downright game, I may but hold your cards, I '11 not pull down the side '. Malef.