The Dramatic Works, Volume 3W. Paterson, 1873 |
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acted ALPH Alphonso Altesto Altophil Alvaro Amaranta appear Arthiopa Asco Ascoli beauty bold Calladine courage Court D'avenant danger dare death dost doth Duke Earl Enter EVAN Evandra Exeunt Exit fair father fear folio FRIV Frivolo Galeotto George Hudson give grief grow HALY haste hath heart heaven Heildebrand Henry Lawes HIRCO honour hope i'th Ianthe Ianthe's jealousy kind King lady Leonell Lincoln's Inn Fields live Lord love's lovers Melora Millain mistress Morello mourn MUSTA Mustapha ne'er night noble opera Pirrhus pity play pow'r Prince PROS Prospero RAMPINO Rangone Rhodians ROSTRAS Roxolana Rutland House Scene shew Siege of Rhodes SOLY Solyman stay strange Sultan sword theatre thee thou art thoughts Tristan twill unto valiant valour Vasco vex'd Villerius virtue whilst widow wound
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Page 108 - Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians.
Page 2 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 251 - Lovers,"1 a good play and well performed, especially the little girl's (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing ; and were it not for her, the losse of Roxalana would spoil the house.
Page 230 - The Siege of Rhodes. Made a Representation by the Art of Prospective in Scenes, and the Story sung in Recitative Mustek. At the back part of Rutland House, in the upper end of Aldersgate Street, London.
Page 139 - ... however, there was some difficulty, as, by the regulations of the game, the middle couple were not to separate before they had succeeded, while the others might break hands whenever they found themselves hard pressed. When all had been taken in turn, the last couple were said to be in hell, and the game ended.
Page 253 - of their house : and he is much with her in private, and she goes to him, and do give him many presents ; and that the thing is most certain, and...
Page 214 - ... acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators : and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth by an ancient MS. intituled Ludus Cffrporis Chrtsti, or ZWws Conventria. I have been told...
Page 246 - Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excell, Newmarket's glory rose, as Britain's fell ; The soldier breath'd the gallantries of France,. And ev'ry flow'ry courtier writ romance. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm, And yielding metal flow'd to human form : Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Page 248 - ... all due ceremonies, in the presence of one of her fellow-players, who attended as a witness on her part. You will suppose, perhaps, that the new countess had nothing to do but to appear at court according to her rank, and to display the earl's arms upon her carriage. This was far from being the case. "When examination was made concerning the marriage, it was found to be a mere deception : it appeared that the pretended priest was one of my lord's trumpeters, and the witness his kettledrummer....
Page 286 - Tis love that has a fever got ; Love that is violently hot, But troubled with cold and trembling fits. 'Tis yet a more unnatural evil : 'Tis the god of love, 'tis the god of love, possessed with a devil.