Robert Greene's Selimus: Eine litterarhistorische untersuchungH. Fiencke, 1899 - 78 pages |
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Abfassungszeit Acomat Alemshae Alphonsus Amasia Amplificatio Amurath Anspielungen atque Avicenna Bajazet Bajazetes autem Bajazetis beiden Belierbey Blankvers Bote Bullithrumble burlaine Cali Characterzeichnung Cherseoli Citate Collier Corcut crown death deeds deutlich Dichter doth Dramas Dyce pag erat ersten etiam fear Figuren first folgende fortune Friar Bacon George-a-Greene give great Greene Greene'sche Grosart Hali Bassa Handlung hath head heart heaven imperium ipsum James James IV Janitscharen king life Looking-Glasse love Machiavellismus made Magnesia Marlowe's Drama Marlowe's Tamburlaine Monolog Mustapha namentlich Natolia Niniveh Ninus omnibus Orlando Furioso Ottrante Parn Parnassus patrem Physiologus Prince Publicum quam quiet quod Rede Regan Reimpaare Robert Greene Robert Greene's Samandria Saniacatum Scene Schlacht Schluss sechszeilige Strophe Selimo Selimus Selimus und Acomat Sinam Sohn Solyma Stanzen Stelle Stil Storojenko Stück sweet Tamb Tamburlaine thee thou Titus Andronicus Tonombey übrigen Dramen Greene's unsere unto vergleiche Verse Vizier Witness wohl world Zonara zweite Teil
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Page 44 - Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; /The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest ; The cottage that affords no pride nor care ; The mean that 'grees with country music best ; The sweet consort of mirth and music's fare ; Obscured life sets down a type of bliss...
Page 54 - Caine; this betrayer of him that gave his life for him inherited the portion of Judas; this apostata perished as ill as Julian : and wilt thou, my friend, be his disciple? Looke unto me, by him perswaded to that libertie, and thou shall finde it an infernall bondage.
Page 64 - Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers : and had it in derision, for that I could not make my verses iet vpon the stage in tragicall buskins, euerie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heauen with that Atheist Tamburlan...
Page 72 - Scylla's pride ; and then by oath he bound me To write no more of that whence shame doth grow: Or tie my pen to penny-knaves' delight, But live with fame and so for fame to write.
Page 68 - Minerva's sacred art; And this my hand which used for to pen The praise of love, and Cupid's peerless power, Will now begin to treat of bloody Mars, Of doughty deeds and valiant victories.
Page 54 - What are his rules but mere confused mockeries, able to extirpate in small time the generation of mankind ! For if Sic volo, sic jubeo, hold in those that are able to command, and if it be...
Page 64 - ... (to vse the Germaine prouerbe) hath swet out all the greatest part of their wits, which wasts gradatim, as the Italians say poco a. poco. If I speake darkely, gentlemen, and offend with this digression, I craue pardon, in that I but answere in print what they haue offered on the stage.
Page 4 - And lastly, the coniunction and ioyning of the two noble Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. As it was playd by the Queenes Maiesties Players. London Printed by Thomas Creede, and are to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market, neare Christ Church doore. 1594.
Page 54 - ... a slaughterman, till the mightiest, outliving all, one stroke were left for death, that in one age man's life should end.
Page 5 - Too true that tyrant Dionysius Did picture out the image of a King, When Damocles was placed in his throne. And o'er his head a threat'ning sword did hang, Fastned up only by a horse's hair. 1882 'F. ANSTEY' Vice Versa i He was an old gentleman ... of irreproachable character ... ; no Damocles' sword of exposure was swinging over his bald but blameless head.