The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion

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W. Paterson, 1875 - 295 páginas
 

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Página xii - Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor ; being ready in person to combat with him, and in this quarrel will adventure his life against him on what day soever he shall be appointed.
Página 101 - He was a learned and prudent man, and as one of the richest, so one of the meekest men in England. He was active in making the defence and drawing up the articles of Oxon when the garrison was to be surrendered to the parliament ; for which, and his steady loyalty, he was afterwards forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmith's Hall, London.
Página 61 - Should make his soul degenerous with sin, And slave to luxury, to drown his spirits In lees of sloth, to yield up the weak day To wine, to lust, and banquets.
Página xii - If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord King George the Fourth, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith...
Página 7 - That on our branches now new poets sing : And when with joy he shall see this resort, Phoebus shall not disdain to styl't his Court.
Página 138 - From the heaven Of my delight, where the boon Delphic god Drinks sack and keeps his Bacchanalia, And has his incense and his altars smoking, And speaks in sparkling prophecies ; thence I come My brains perfumed with the rich Indian vapour, And heightened with conceits.
Página 254 - Too young ! I like you the better. There is a price Due to the early cherry. : the first apples Deserve more grace : the budding rose is set by ; But, stale and fully-blown, is left for vulgars To rub their sweaty fingers on. Too young ! As well you may affirm the tender tree Too young to graft upon ; or you may say, The rising sun's too young to court the day.
Página 252 - Why, gentle boy, think what a happy bliss Thou shalt enjoy, before thou know'st what 'tis ! ANG. 'Twill be a dear experiment, to waste My prime and flower of youth, and suffer all Those liquid...
Página 224 - Be not too rash, sir : women are not won With force, but fair entreaty. Have I been vers'd Thus long i' th' school of love ; know all their arts, Their practices, their ways, and subtleties, In all my encounters still return'da victor, And have not left a stratagem at last To work on her affection, let me suffer. LOR. Nay, and you have that confidence, I'll leave you.
Página 243 - LEO. Well, if he had but bounty annexed to his other sufficiencies, he were unparalleled. DUKE. Nay, there's no man in the earth more liberal : take it upon my word, he has not that thing in the world so dear or precious in his esteem, which he will not most willingly part with upon the least summons of his friend. PET. Now must I give away some two or three hundred pounds' worth of toys, to maintain this assertion.

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