Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an Historical View of Our Earlier Comedy, and Other Monographs, Svazek 2

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Macmillan, 1913
 

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Strana 401 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Strana 410 - 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...
Strana 400 - Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.
Strana 283 - 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.
Strana 125 - 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.
Strana 356 - KAS. The Widow Pliant. Knew you not that? SUB. No, faith, sir; Yet, by erection of her figure,
Strana 322 - 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...
Strana 331 - The best attendance, the best drink, sometimes Two glasses of canary, and pay nothing; The purest linen, and the sharpest knife, The partridge next his trencher; and somewhere The dainty bed, in private, with the dainty. You shall ha...
Strana 295 - gainst the epilepsy: And I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, Headed with diamond and carbuncle.
Strana 41 - So would not I in any bastard's, brother, As it is like he is, although I knew Myself his father. But you said you had somewhat To tell me, gentle brother: what is't, what is't?

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