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Seite xv - The manner of these plays were, every company had his pageant or part, which pageants were a high scaffold with two rooms, a higher and a lower, upon four wheels. In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher room they played, being all open on the top, that all beholders might hear and see them.
Seite 51 - If I were to be consulted as to a Reprint of our Old English Dramatists, I should advise to begin with the collected Plays of Heywood. He was a fellow Actor, and fellow Dramatist, with Shakspeare. He possessed not the imagination of the latter ; but in all those qualities which gained for Shakspeare the attribute of gentle, he was not inferior to him.
Seite 34 - No man may compare with Robin Hood, With Robin Hood, Scathlocke and John ; Their like was never, nor never will be, If in case that they were gone. They will not away from merry Shirwood, In any place else to dwell : For there is neither city nor towne, That likes them halfe so well.
Seite 71 - That they were commonly exhibited at this period also appears by a familiar allusion made in Marston's "Dutch Courtezan," acted 1605 ; — " yet all will scarce make me so high as one of the gyant's stilts that stalks before my Lord Mayor's pageants.
Seite 193 - I was, and consulting with him what we should do the next day, he told me that it would be very dangerous for me either to stay in that house, or to go into the wood, there being a great wood hard by Boscobel ; that he knew but one way how to pass the next day, and that was, to get up into a great oak, in a pretty plain place, where we might see round about us ; for the enemy would certainly search at the wood for people that had made their escape.
Seite 51 - Generosity, courtesy, temperance in the depths of passion; sweetness, in a word, and gentleness ; Christianism ; and true hearty Anglicism of feelings, shaping that Christianism ; shine throughout his beautiful writings in a manner more conspicuous than in those of Shakespeare, but only more conspicuous, inasmuch as in Heywood these qualities are primary, in the other subordinate to poetry.
Seite 165 - I therefore, being the son of a citizen, congratulate this return of city-gallantry, and manifestation of her scverall splendors in your majority to your honoured self, it being most proper that the lost beauty and magnificence of the place, should be restored by one (if I mistake it not), a brother of the prime company, and therefore most fit to lead, that so being begun in the virgin society, it may, like a Vestall fire, never go out.
Seite 78 - ... invented in express remembrance of the Oak of Boscobel, which is thus described in the letters patent, — " he bears upon an oak proper, in a field or, a fess gules, charged with three regal crowns of the second, by the name of Carlos. And for his crest a civic crown, or oak garland, with a sword and scepter crossed through it saltier-wise.
Seite 75 - Close by its side grows a young thriving plant from one of its acorns. Over the door of the inclosure, I took this inscription in marble: — ' Felicissimam arborem quam in asylum potentissimi Regis Caroli II. Deus О.