The Duchess of Padua: A Play, Volume 1 |
Common terms and phrases
art thou ASCANIO barrier Beatrice blood CITIZEN Ay corridor COUNT BARDI Court dagger dare dead dear death door dreadful ducat DUCHESS Ay DUCHESS GUIDO Duchess of Padua Exit eyes face Farewell father gentlemen GESSO give go hence gold Grace grave GUIDO DUCHESS Guido Ferranti GUIDO Nay GUIDO Oh guilty hand HARVARD COLLEGE hath headsman heart heaven JEPPO killed the Duke kiss knave knife laugh liege lips live look Lord Cardinal LORD JUSTICE LORD MORANZONE Madam MAFFIO mercy MISTRESS LUCY MORANZONE Ay MORANZONE GUIDO murder never night noble Orvieto Oscar Wilde Parma Perugia poison poor public enemy revenge Rimini Saint Saint James SECOND CITIZEN SECOND SOLDIER secret sleep soul speak sweet tarry tell thee thine thing THIRD CITIZEN THIRD SOLDIER thou art thou hast thou shalt to-night Twas unto vengeance Venice vile wake women АСТ
Popular passages
Page 122 - Murder did you say ? Murder is hungry, and still cries for more, And Death, his brother, is not satisfied, But walks the house, and will not go away, Unless he has a comrade ! Tarry, Death, For I will give thee a most faithful lackey To travel with thee ! Murder, call no more, For thou shalt eat thy fill.
Page 22 - Is to have brains, then the mob mocks at him ; And for the mob, despise it as I do, I hold its bubble praise and windy favours In such account, that popularity Is the one insult I have never suffered.
Page 22 - First impulses are generally good. GUIDO (aside) Surely a toad sits on his lips, and spills its venom there. DUKE See thou hast enemies, Else will the world think very little of thee, It is its test of power ; yet see...
Page 209 - They do not sin at all Who sin for love. DUCHESS No, I have sinned, and yet Perchance my sin will be forgiven me. I have loved much.
Page 23 - O, be thou sure I do. DUKE. And be not over-scrupulous; clean hands With nothing in them make a sorry show. If you would have the lion's share of life. You must wear the fox's skin; Oh, it will fit you; It is a coat which fitteth every man, The fat, the lean, the tall man, and the short, Whoever makes that coat, boy, is a tailor That never lacks a customer.
Page 21 - You have the eyes of one I used to know. But he died childless. So, sir, you would serve me; Well, we lack soldiers; are you honest, boy? Then be not spendthrift of your honesty, But keep it to yourself, in Padua Men think that honesty is ostentatious, so It is not of the fashion. Look at these lords Smelling of civet and the pomander box. . . . COUNT BARDI (aside). Here is some bitter arrow for us, sure. DUKE. Why, every man among them has his price, Although, to do them justice, some of them Are...
Page 110 - A little water clears us of this deed," and, later, "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him...
Page 106 - conceit," which may have seemed the very rose of poetry in 1882, struck Wilde as a merely refrigerative piece of decoration in 1891. And revision has cut out many banal pieces of figuration like : " The shipman's needle is not set more sure Than I am to the lodestone of your love." But to make the play anything more than a fine, fervid outburst of young admirations for many things written before it, Wilde in his adult mind would have had to omit it all but a few groups of lines here and there. Such...