The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous prose, 1798-1834Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... Play - house Memoranda Review of The Excursion . On the Melancholy of Tailors * On Needle - work On the Poetical Works of George Wither Four Dramatic Criticisms . · I. Miss Kelly at Bath II . Richard Brome's " Jovial Crew " III . Isaac ...
... Play - house Memoranda Review of The Excursion . On the Melancholy of Tailors * On Needle - work On the Poetical Works of George Wither Four Dramatic Criticisms . · I. Miss Kelly at Bath II . Richard Brome's " Jovial Crew " III . Isaac ...
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... Play , which passes for his upon the Stage , materially differs from that which he wrote under the same title , being in fact little better than a compilation or a cento of passages extracted from other of his Plays , and applied with ...
... Play , which passes for his upon the Stage , materially differs from that which he wrote under the same title , being in fact little better than a compilation or a cento of passages extracted from other of his Plays , and applied with ...
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... play or passage by which they were suggested . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Lust's Dominion , or the Lascivious Queen . - This tragedy is in King Cambyses ' vein ; rape , and murder , and superlatives ; " huffing braggart puft lines , " such as ...
... play or passage by which they were suggested . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Lust's Dominion , or the Lascivious Queen . - This tragedy is in King Cambyses ' vein ; rape , and murder , and superlatives ; " huffing braggart puft lines , " such as ...
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... play , where Bellafront , a reclaimed harlot , recounts some of the miseries of her profession , a simple picture of honour and shame , contrasted without violence , and expressed without immodesty , which is worth all the strong lines ...
... play , where Bellafront , a reclaimed harlot , recounts some of the miseries of her profession , a simple picture of honour and shame , contrasted without violence , and expressed without immodesty , which is worth all the strong lines ...
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... play , for instance , his country gentlemen , & c . are exactly what we see , but of the best kind of what we see , in life . Shakspeare makes us believe , while we are among his lovely creations , that they are nothing but what we are ...
... play , for instance , his country gentlemen , & c . are exactly what we see , but of the best kind of what we see , in life . Shakspeare makes us believe , while we are among his lovely creations , that they are nothing but what we are ...
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Seite 369 - No matter where; of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Seite 543 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Seite 470 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Seite 501 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Seite 222 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 200 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Seite 88 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Seite 200 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, 220 And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 370 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Seite 370 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground...