Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-471913 |
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Page 73
... common within the line , as well as at the end , and is very rare in Shakespeare . ' The use of this in the middle of the line I have not noticed in Brome , but the jolting effect of it at the end , which is a serviceable Beaumont ...
... common within the line , as well as at the end , and is very rare in Shakespeare . ' The use of this in the middle of the line I have not noticed in Brome , but the jolting effect of it at the end , which is a serviceable Beaumont ...
Page 80
... common in Italian novelists . Hazlitt suggests the eighth story of Les Comptes du Monde Aventureux ( Paris 1555 ; a translation from various Italian sources ) as Brome's source here . The making the servant a negress he thinks original ...
... common in Italian novelists . Hazlitt suggests the eighth story of Les Comptes du Monde Aventureux ( Paris 1555 ; a translation from various Italian sources ) as Brome's source here . The making the servant a negress he thinks original ...
Page 87
... Common's duping of Dapper— occurs repeatedly in Brome . Dr. Faust has found a suggestion for the situation in the Jovial Crew in a phrase in the Gipsies Metamorphosed Gaze upon . . . : this brave Spark struck out of Flintshire , upon ...
... Common's duping of Dapper— occurs repeatedly in Brome . Dr. Faust has found a suggestion for the situation in the Jovial Crew in a phrase in the Gipsies Metamorphosed Gaze upon . . . : this brave Spark struck out of Flintshire , upon ...
Page 90
... Common I have alluded to before as the possible original of the many obliging harlots whom Brome introduces as ready conspirators in the cause of virtue or of vice . Finally , we have Abel Drugger , the city gull ; Sir Moth Interest ...
... Common I have alluded to before as the possible original of the many obliging harlots whom Brome introduces as ready conspirators in the cause of virtue or of vice . Finally , we have Abel Drugger , the city gull ; Sir Moth Interest ...
Page 96
... common as might be expected . Dr. Faust has noted one in the City Wit.1 Sarpego says : Diogenes Laertius on a certain time demanded of Cornelius Tacitus , an areopagite of Syracusa , what was the most commodious and expeditest method to ...
... common as might be expected . Dr. Faust has noted one in the City Wit.1 Sarpego says : Diogenes Laertius on a certain time demanded of Cornelius Tacitus , an areopagite of Syracusa , what was the most commodious and expeditest method to ...
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A. H. Bullen Alchemist Alexander Brome Antipodes Arch Bartholomew Fair Beaumont and Fletcher Beeston's Boys Ben Jonson Bias buſines character City Wit comedy Compalle Compass Couple well Matched Court Begger Courtier Covent Garden Weeded Cynthia's Revels Dekker Doctor drama dramatist edition English Faust felfe firſt Fleay Form Glossary hath houſe humor Ironside Jonson Jovial Crew Ladiſhip Lady Loadstone London Mad Couple Magnetic Lady masque metre Miftris moſt muſt Needle Neice Northern Lass Palate passage person Ph.D Placentia play Pleasance plot Poetaster Poets Polish Practife Prologue Puritans Queen Queen's Exchange Richard Brome satire ſay says scene ſelfe Shakespeare ſhall ſhe ſhould Silent Woman Sir Diaphanous Sir Moath Sparagus Garden ſpeake ſtill ſuch thee theſe thou thouſand valour verses Volpone vols woman
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Page 175 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 128 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 113 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 100 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 131 - While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal. For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Page 190 - There dwelt a man in Babylon Of reputation great by fame ; He took to wife a faire woman, Susanna she was callde by name : A woman fair and vertuous ; Lady, lady : Why should we not of her learn thus To live godly ? If this song of Corydon, &c., has not more merit, it is at least an evil of less magnitude.
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Page 109 - Servants, with great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakespeare, Gent.