Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the Nineteenth CenturyJohn Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin Century Company, 1916 - 836 pages |
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... Stay , Sperantus , this is like my case , for I have been tampering as long to have a marriage committed between my wench and Memphio's only son : they say he is as goodly a youth as one shall see in a summer's day , and as neat a ...
... Stay , Sperantus , this is like my case , for I have been tampering as long to have a marriage committed between my wench and Memphio's only son : they say he is as goodly a youth as one shall see in a summer's day , and as neat a ...
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... stay . you ; Stel . In good time , Memphio , for I was about to crave your patience to depart ; it stands me upon.- ( Aside . ) Per- haps I may move his patience ere it be long . Mem . ( Aside . ) Good silly Stellio ; we must buckle ...
... stay . you ; Stel . In good time , Memphio , for I was about to crave your patience to depart ; it stands me upon.- ( Aside . ) Per- haps I may move his patience ere it be long . Mem . ( Aside . ) Good silly Stellio ; we must buckle ...
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... stay ; thou must with me to prison . Kis . If thou be a good fellow , hackney- man , take all our four bonds for the payment ; thou knowest we are town - born children , and will not shrink 44 the city for a pelting 45 jade . Half . I ...
... stay ; thou must with me to prison . Kis . If thou be a good fellow , hackney- man , take all our four bonds for the payment ; thou knowest we are town - born children , and will not shrink 44 the city for a pelting 45 jade . Half . I ...
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... stay still . Q. Isab . Then let him stay ; for rather than my lord Shall be oppress'd by civil mutinies , I will endure a melancholy life , And let him frolic with his minion . 1. of Cant . My lords , to ease all this , but hear me ...
... stay still . Q. Isab . Then let him stay ; for rather than my lord Shall be oppress'd by civil mutinies , I will endure a melancholy life , And let him frolic with his minion . 1. of Cant . My lords , to ease all this , but hear me ...
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... Stay , Gaveston , I cannot leave thee thus . Gav . For every look , my lord drops down a tear . Seeing I must go , do not renew my sor- row . K. Edw . The time is little that thou hast to stay , And , therefore , give me leave to look ...
... Stay , Gaveston , I cannot leave thee thus . Gav . For every look , my lord drops down a tear . Seeing I must go , do not renew my sor- row . K. Edw . The time is little that thou hast to stay , And , therefore , give me leave to look ...
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Page 573 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 551 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex: True, she is fair (oh, how divinely fair!), But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners; Cato's soul Shines out in everything she acts or speaks.
Page 573 - I'm weary of conjectures— this must end 'em [Laying his hand on his sword. . Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die.' The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck...
Page 573 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 529 - Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers; and then never to be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after. Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together, but let us be very strange and well bred : let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well bred as if we were not married at all.
Page 647 - Mar. [Perusing] What's here ( For the first course; for the second course ; for the dessert. The devil, Sir, do you think, we have brought down the whole Joiners...
Page 647 - Sir, you have a right to command here. Here, Roger, bring us the bill of fare for to-night's supper. I believe it's drawn out. Your manner, Mr. Hastings, puts me in mind of my uncle, Colonel Wallop. It was a saying of his, that no man was sure of his supper till he had eaten it.
Page 642 - I'll -wager the rascals a crown, They always preach best with a skinful. But when you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion, I'll leave it to all men of sense, But you, my good friend, are the pigeon.
Page 114 - Tis not the first time I have killed a man. 80 I learned in Naples how to poison flowers ; To strangle with a lawn thrust down the throat ; To pierce the windpipe with a needle's point ; Or whilst one is asleep, to take a quill And blow a little powder in his ears : Or open his mouth and pour quicksilver down. And yet I have a braver way than these.
Page 695 - Ay, ay, these are done in the true spirit of portrait-painting ; no volontiere grace or expression. Not like the works of your modern Raphaels, who give you the strongest resemblance, yet contrive to make your portrait independent of you ; so that you may sink the original and not hurt the picture.