Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix, Containing Some Further Observations on Shakespeare, Extended to the Late Editions of Malone and Steevens. By the Right Honourable J. Monck Mason, Volume 2

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V. Griffiths, 1798 - 67 pages

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Page 49 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 181 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 4 - Nay, himself, with long and continual counterfeiting, and with oft telling a lie, was turned by habit almost into the thing he seemed to be ; and from a liar to a believer.
Page 7 - I must put in for that, since out tried friendship Hath lasted from our infancy. Belg. I have served Under your command, and you have seen me fight, And handsomely, though I say it ; and if now, At this downright game, I may but hold your cards, I '11 not pull down the side '. Malef.
Page 25 - I'll leave ne'er a piece of him bigger than a nut, and bring him all to you in my hat. ARE. Nay, good sir, If you do take him, bring him quick' to me, And I will study for a punishment Great as his fault.
Page 45 - Oh great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world 0' the plurisy of people; I do take Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name To my design march boldly.
Page 54 - Women are angels, wooing : Things won are done ; joy's soul lies in the doing : That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this : Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is : That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue. Therefore this maxim out of love I teach : Achievement is command ; ungain'd, beseech...
Page 394 - ... marble, two fountains that spout water one round the other like a pyramid, upon which are perched small birds that stream water out of their bills : In the grove of Diana is a very agreeable fountain, with Actaeon turned into a stag, as he was sprinkled by the goddess and her nymphs, with inscriptions.
Page 349 - wot I well ;' and then it will run thus ; . This rehearsal (Which fury innocent, wot I well, comes in Like old cmportment's bastard) has this end,' &c. And Emilia's meaning is this; 'This recital, the innocent enthusiasm of which, I well know, comes in like the Spurious offspring, the faint resemblance of the passion I formerly felt for Flavina, is intended to prove that love between maid and maid may be stronger than that between persons of different sexes.
Page 241 - And on his grave Let him have Sacrifice of sighs and groaning ; Let him have fair flowers enow, White and purple, green and yellow, For him that...

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