Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an Historical View of Our Earlier Comedy and Other Monographs by Various Writers, Volume 2Macmillan, 1913 - English drama (Comedy) |
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Page 414 - I can, and from a most clear conscience, affirm, that I have ever trembled to think toward the least profaneness; have loathed the use of such foul and unwashed bawdry as is now made the food of the scene...
Page 287 - And I would know by art, sir, of your worship, Which way I should make my door, by necromancy, And where my shelves ; and which should be for boxes, And which for pots. I would be glad to thrive, sir : And I was wish'd* to your worship by a gentleman, One Captain Face, that says you know men's planets. And their good angels, and their bad.
Page 129 - tis odds but half the Audience would have sided with the Character and have Condemn'd the Author for Exposing a Humour which was neither Remarkable nor Ridiculous. Besides, the distance of the Stage requires the Figure represented to be something larger than the Life; and sure a Picture may have Features larger in Proportion, and yet be very like the Original.
Page 266 - ... point of art that tickles the spectators. But how out of purpose, and place, do I name art? When the professors are grown so obstinate contemners of it, and presumers on their own naturals, as they are deriders of all diligence...
Page 326 - Which now, being tow'rd' the stone, we shall not need. SUB. No, nor your holy vizard," to win widows To give you legacies; or make zealous wives To rob their husbands...
Page 297 - 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.— Thou art sure thou saw'st it blood?
Page 27 - And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scarres. He rather prayes you will be pleas'd to see One such to day, as other playes should be ; Where neither Chorus wafts you ore the seas ; Nor creaking throne comes downe, the boyes to please ; Nor nimble squibbe is scene, to make afear'd The gentlewomen ; nor roul'd bullet heard, To say it thunders ; nor tempestuous drumme Rumbles, to tell you when the storme doth come...
Page 298 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Page 27 - As he dare serve the ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate: To make a child now...
Page 346 - Mam. It is a noble humour; but this form Was not intended to so dark a use. Had you been crooked, foul, of some coarse mould, A cloister had done well; but such a feature That might stand up the glory of a kingdom, To live recluse, is a mere solecism, Though in a nunnery.