The Dramatic Works and Poems of James ShirleyMurray, 1833 - 1 pages |
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admiral Ajax Alworth Arcadia Asall Basilius blood CALCHAS Chab Chabot Cham Chan chancellor Clod command court Cupid Cupid and Death Dame Dametas dance dare death Diom Dorus dost doth Dotterels Enter Euar Exeunt Exit eyes fair Fath father favour fear fight flame Fulbank gentlemen give Gynecia happy hath hear heart heaven Honoria HONORIA AND MAMMON honour James Shirley judge Juno justice king kiss lady Mammon leave look lord Lysippus madam master Miso mistress Mopsa noble nymph old copy Pamela pardon Phan Philan Philanax Philoc Philoclea poison'd prince prithee Pyrocles queen Re-enter rich SCENE servant shew Shirley smile Sold soul Squan sweet sword tears Telamon tell thee There's Thersander things thou hast thought Trav Treas triumph TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY Ulysses wife wonder Zelmane
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Page 395 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...
Page 395 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 425 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, especially in the amorous way, which, for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior, to any of that time...
Page 161 - But not the sun with all her amorous smiles, The dews of morning, or the tears of night, Can root her fibres in the earth again ; Or make her bosom kind, to growth and bearing : But the tree withers...
Page 256 - Several other Projectors were in like manner personated in this Antimasque ; and it pleased the spectators the more, because by it an information was covertly given to the King of the unfitness and ridiculousness of these projects against the law ; and the Attorney Noy, who had most knowledge of them, had a great hand in this Antimasque of the Projectors.
Page 353 - Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind in every shore And your triumphs reach as far As night or day, Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey And mingle with forgotten ashes, when Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. Devouring Famine, Plague, and War, Each able to undo mankind, Death's servile emissaries are...
Page 91 - You cannot well judge what the main form is ; So men, that view him but in vulgar passes, Casting but lateral, or partial glances At what he is, suppose him weak, unjust, Bloody, and monstrous ; but stand free and fast, And judge him by no more than what you know Ingenuously, and by the right laid line Of truth, he truly will all styles deserve Of wise, just, good : a man, both soul and nerve.
Page 87 - The Ball / A / Comedy, /As it was presented by her / Majesties Servants, at the private / House in Drury Lane.
Page 256 - Then came another fellow with a bunch of carrots upon his head, and a capon upon his fist, describing a Projector who begged a patent of monopoly, as the first inventor of the art to feed capons fat with carrots, and that none but himself might make use of that invention, and have the privilege for fourteen years, according to the statute.
Page 92 - And the Almighty Wisdom having given Each man within himself an apter light To guide his acts than any light without him, (Creating nothing, not in all things equal,) It seems a fault in any that depend On others' knowledge, and exile their own.