A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Том 10

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Reeves and Turner, 1875 - Всего страниц: 464
 

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Стр. 60 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?
Стр. 61 - Does every proud and self-affecting dame Camphire her face for this, and grieve her Maker In sinful baths of milk, when many an infant starves For her superfluous outside — all for this ? Who now bids twenty pounds a night ? prepares Music, perfumes, and sweetmeats ? All are hushed.
Стр. 60 - I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling .temptation; to make him clasp his teeth — " And not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run through 'em.
Стр. 104 - This murder might have slept in tongueless brass But for ourselves, and the world died an ass. Now I remember too, here was Piato Brought forth a knavish sentence once ; No doubt (said he), but time Will make the murderer bring forth himself. 'Tis well he died ; he was a witch. And now, my lord, since we are in for ever...
Стр. 238 - Sir, assured that this motion doth proceed From your most kind and fatherly affection, I do dispose my liking to your pleasure : But for it is a matter of such moment As holy marriage, I must crave thus much, To have some conference with my ghostly father, Friar Hildersham...
Стр. 91 - That the words now replaced are better, I do not undertake to prove; it is sufficient that they are Shakspeare's : if phraseology is to be changed as words grow uncouth by disuse, or gross by vulgarity, the history of every language will .be lost ; we shall no longer have the words of any author ; and, as these alterations will be often unskilfully made, we shall in time have very little of his meaning.
Стр. 49 - He's the next heir: yet this true reason gathers, None can possess that dispossess their fathers. Be merciful!— Duke.
Стр. 367 - I have heard it observed among them, that by how much the nobler a woman is, by so much the higher are her chapineys. All their gentlewomen, and most of their wives and...
Стр. 241 - I was praying in my psalter, There came a spirit unto me, as I kneel'd, And by his strong persuasions tempted me To leave this nunnery ; and methought He came in the most glorious angel-shape That mortal eye did ever look upon.
Стр. 62 - Faith, my lord, a country lady, a little bashful at first, as most of them are ; but after the first kiss, my lord, the worst is past with them.

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