The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Dramatic specimens and the Garrick playsMethuen & Company, 1904 - Authors, English |
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... fire : These , for revenge of wretched murder done , Doth cause the mother kill her only son . Blood asketh blood , and death must death requit ; Jove by his just and everlasting doom Justly hath ever so requited it . This times before ...
... fire : These , for revenge of wretched murder done , Doth cause the mother kill her only son . Blood asketh blood , and death must death requit ; Jove by his just and everlasting doom Justly hath ever so requited it . This times before ...
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... fire , And so doth bring confusion to them all . [ Exit . [ Act iii . , Sc . 11. ' ] JAQUES and PEDRO , servants . Jaq . I wonder , Pedro , why our master thus At midnight sends us with our torches light , When man and bird and beast ...
... fire , And so doth bring confusion to them all . [ Exit . [ Act iii . , Sc . 11. ' ] JAQUES and PEDRO , servants . Jaq . I wonder , Pedro , why our master thus At midnight sends us with our torches light , When man and bird and beast ...
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... fire , the house is a fire ; and the torch over my head ; make me curse , make .me rave , make me cry , make me mad , make me well again , make me curse hell , invocate , and in the end leave me in a trance , and so forth . Pain . And ...
... fire , the house is a fire ; and the torch over my head ; make me curse , make .me rave , make me cry , make me mad , make me well again , make me curse hell , invocate , and in the end leave me in a trance , and so forth . Pain . And ...
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... fire , temper'd with sweet air , Black shade , fair nurse , shadow my white hair : Shine sun , burn fire , breathe air and ease me ; Black shade , fair nurse , shroud me and please me ; Shadow ( my sweet nurse ) keep me from burning ...
... fire , temper'd with sweet air , Black shade , fair nurse , shadow my white hair : Shine sun , burn fire , breathe air and ease me ; Black shade , fair nurse , shroud me and please me ; Shadow ( my sweet nurse ) keep me from burning ...
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... fire and sword . [ Act iv . , Sc . i . ] I had the same difficulty ( or rather much more ) in culling a few sane lines from this as from the preceding Play . The lunes of Tamburlaine are perfect " mid- summer madness ...
... fire and sword . [ Act iv . , Sc . i . ] I had the same difficulty ( or rather much more ) in culling a few sane lines from this as from the preceding Play . The lunes of Tamburlaine are perfect " mid- summer madness ...
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Alaham beauty behold BEN JONSON blessing blood breath brother Cæsar Calica Camena Clor COMEDY PUBLISHED Corb Court curse dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch Duke earth eyes fair father fear give gods grief hand hath hear heart heaven honour hope Jacin JAMES SHIRLEY JOHN FLETCHER King kiss Lady leave lines omitted live look Lord Madam maid Mermaid Series methinks mistress Moth mother ne'er Nennius never night noble Ovid passion Peneus PHILIP MASSINGER pity play poor pray Prince Queen revenge scene Shakspeare shame shew sister sleep sorrow soul speak spirit sweet tears tell thee thine things THOMAS HEYWOOD THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art thou hast thoughts thyself TRAGEDY PUBLISHED true twas unto Violanta virtue weep what's whilst wife WILLIAM ROWLEY woman
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Page 610 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 23 - Tell Isabel, the queen, I look'd not thus, When for her sake I ran at tilt in France, And there unhors'd the Duke of Cleremont.
Page 145 - The names, and some of the properties which the other author has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations. Their power too is, in some measure, over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, ' like a thick scurf
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Page 267 - Why? Do you think I fable with you? I assure you. He that has once the flower of the sun, The perfect ruby which we call elixir, Not only can do that, but by its virtue, Can confer honour, love, respect, long life, Give safety, valour: yea, and victory, To whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore, a child.
Page 269 - For I do mean To have a list of wives and concubines Equal with Solomon, who had the stone Alike with me ; and I will make me a back With the elixir that shall be as tough As Hercules, to encounter fifty a night.
Page 397 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the Time of Shakspeare.
Page 182 - Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance : for mine own part, I have ever truly cherished my good opinion of other men's worthy labours ; especially of that full and heightened...
Page 179 - Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora, to make me sleep: Go, tell my brothers, when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Page 346 - To my wish : we are private. I come not to make offer with my daughter A certain portion, — that were poor and trivial : In one word, I pronounce all that is mine, In lands or leases, ready coin or goods, With her, my lord, comes to you; nor shall you have One motive to induce you to believe I live too long, since every year I'll add Something unto the heap, which shall be yours too. Lav . You are a right kind father.