Shakespeare's London

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H. Holt, 1905 - 357 עמודים

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עמוד 302 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.
עמוד 302 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous.
עמוד 333 - ... that looketh to the making of the beds will be sure to remove it from the place where the owner hath set it, as if it were to set it more...
עמוד 229 - All good people, pray heartily unto God for these poor sinners, who are now going to their death, for whom this great bell doth toll. "You that are condemned to die, repent with lamentable tears ; ask mercy of the Lord, for the salvation of your own souls, through the merits, death, and passion of Jesus Christ, who now sits at the right hand of God, to make intercession for as many of you as penitently return unto Him. " Lord have mercy upon you ; Christ have mercy upon you.
עמוד 328 - Balurdo. I am not as well known by my wit, as an alehouse by a red lattice * ? I am not worthy to love and be beloved of Flavia.
עמוד 324 - Pelion upon Ossa, glory upon glory. As first, all the eyes in the galleries will leave walking after the players, and...
עמוד 165 - All being prepared — amidst the ringing of the bells in every part of the city — " the Queen's Majesty, attended with her nobility, came from her house at the Strand, called Somerset House, and entered the city by Temple Bar, through Fleet Street, Cheap, and so by the north side of the Burse to Sir Thomas Gresham's house in Bishopsgate Street, where she dined.
עמוד 27 - ... the phantastical folly of our nation, even from the courtier to the carter, is such, that no form of apparel liketh us longer than the first garment is in the wearing...
עמוד 195 - ... from whence came our English proverb of " Tuntony pig," or t'Antony, an abridgement of the Anthony pig. " I remember," says Stow, " that the officers charged with the oversight of the markets in this city did divers times take from the market people, pigs starved, or otherwise unwholesome for man's sustenance ; these they did slit in the ear. One of the proctors for St.
עמוד 325 - ... on the stage ; you shall disgrace him worse than by tossing him in a blanket, or giving him the bastinado in a tavern, if, in the middle of his play, be it pastoral or comedy, moral or tragedy, you rise with a screwed and discontented face from your stool to be gone.

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