Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Jonson (continued)-Zouch. Plays by anonymous authors. Masks by anonymous authors. University plays [in] English. University plays [in] Latin. Translations. Addenda. Additions on Middleton from Mr. A.H. BullenReeves and Turner, 1891 - English drama |
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Page 230 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 226 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 191 - M. William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 228 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty" of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
Page 180 - Historie of the Merchant of Venice : With the extreame cruelty of Shylocke the Jew towards the said Merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia by the choyce of three chests.
Page 227 - Age rules my lines with wrinkles in my face ; Where, in the Map of all my Misery...
Page 230 - Gave life and courage to my lab'ring pen, And first the sound and virtue of my name Won grace and credit in the ears of men ; With those, the thronged Theatres that press, I in the Circuit for the laurel strove ! Where the full praise, I freely must confess, In heat of blood, a modest mind might move. With shouts and claps at every little pause, When the proud Round on every side hath rung ; Sadly I sit, unmoved with the applause, As though to me it nothing did belong. No public glory vainly I pursue...
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