Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of ElizabethWiley & Putnam, 1845 - 218 עמודים |
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admiration affected Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson breath casuistry character comedy common Cynthia's Revels D'Ol dead death Decker delight devil doth dramatic Duchess of Malfy Duke Eastward Hoe effeminacy Endymion Eumenides extravagance eyes faith fancy Faustus feeling fire flowers friends Friscobaldo genius give grace hand hath head heart heaven Hodge honour human Hydriotaphia imagination imitation Jeremy Taylor Jonson kings kiss learning live look Lord Lover's Melancholy manner Michael Drayton mind moral Muse nature never noble Noble Kinsmen passage passion Philaster play poet poetical poetry pride quincunxes Rhod romantic says scene Sejanus sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sir Rod Sir Thomas Brown sort soul speak spirit striking style sweet taste thee there's things thou thought tion tragedy true truth unto virtue Witches woman words writers youth
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עמוד 84 - Blessings be with them and eternal praise, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight in deathless lays. Oh, might my name be number'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days
עמוד 84 - Books, dreams, are both a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow.
עמוד 36 - doubts on this subject just before, when he exclaims to his friends: " Oh, gentlemen! Hear me with patience, and tremble not at my speeches. Though my heart pant and quiver to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years; oh ! would I had never seen Wittenberg, never read book I
עמוד 41 - List awhile to me, And then thy heart, were it as Gurney's is, Or as Matrevis, hewn from the Caucasus, Yet will it melt ere I have done my tale. This dungeon where they keep me, is the sink Wherein the filth of all the castle falls.
עמוד 167 - prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many •well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with
עמוד 142 - saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple, where the vestal flame Was wont to burn, and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb fair Love, and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Faery
עמוד 142 - Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty,
עמוד 53 - A CHARM SONG. ( The Witches going about the cauldron.) Black spirits, and white; red spirits, and grey; Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in ; Firedrake, Puckey, make it lucky ; Liard, Robin, you must bob in. Round, around, around, about, about; All ill come running in ; all good keep out! 1st
עמוד 34 - Faustus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium 1 ' Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul! See where it flies. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heav'n is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
עמוד 34 - to live, therefore object it not." In his colloquy with the fallen angel, he shows the fixedness of his determination:— " What! is great Mephostophilis so passionate For being deprived of the joys of heaven 1 Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.