The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Dramatic specimens and the Garrick playsMethuen & Company, 1904 - Authors, English |
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... king Gorboduc in the presence of his councillors laments the death of his eldest son , Ferrex , whom Porrex , the younger son , has slain ; Marcella , a court lady , enters and relates the miserable end of Porrex , stabbed by his mother ...
... king Gorboduc in the presence of his councillors laments the death of his eldest son , Ferrex , whom Porrex , the younger son , has slain ; Marcella , a court lady , enters and relates the miserable end of Porrex , stabbed by his mother ...
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... KING DAVID AND FAIR BETHSABE , WITH THE TRAGEDY OF ABSALOM [ FIRST PRINTED IN 1599 ] . BY GEORGE PEELE [ 1558 ? -1597 ? ] 1 Bethsabe , with her maid , bathing . She sings : and David sits above , viewing her . The song . Hot sun , cool ...
... KING DAVID AND FAIR BETHSABE , WITH THE TRAGEDY OF ABSALOM [ FIRST PRINTED IN 1599 ] . BY GEORGE PEELE [ 1558 ? -1597 ? ] 1 Bethsabe , with her maid , bathing . She sings : and David sits above , viewing her . The song . Hot sun , cool ...
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... king of Heaven . Cusay . Is it not Bethsabe the Hethite's wife Urias , now at Rabath siege with Joab ? David . Go now and bring her quickly to the King ; Tell her , her graces hath found grace with him . Cusay . I will , my Lord . David ...
... king of Heaven . Cusay . Is it not Bethsabe the Hethite's wife Urias , now at Rabath siege with Joab ? David . Go now and bring her quickly to the King ; Tell her , her graces hath found grace with him . Cusay . I will , my Lord . David ...
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... kings , and reproaches these pampered jades of Asia that they can draw but twenty miles a day . Till I saw this ... King Egeus fed with human flesh , And made so wanton that they knew their strengths , Were not subdued with valour ...
... kings , and reproaches these pampered jades of Asia that they can draw but twenty miles a day . Till I saw this ... King Egeus fed with human flesh , And made so wanton that they knew their strengths , Were not subdued with valour ...
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... King chiefly delights in . Gav . I must have wanton poets , pleasant wits , Musicians , that with touching of a string May draw the pliant King which way I please . Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by ...
... King chiefly delights in . Gav . I must have wanton poets , pleasant wits , Musicians , that with touching of a string May draw the pliant King which way I please . Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by ...
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Page 590 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 30 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Page 592 - 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 170 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 123 - 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
Page 609 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 245 - 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 247 - 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 122 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations.
Page 157 - 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.