The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and NotesG. Routledge and sons, 1877 - 383 páginas |
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Página 89 - Ditch. Not a whit : What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia ? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits ; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
Página 45 - keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nail» he'll dig them up again." They would not bury him 'cause he died in a quarrel ; But I have an answer for them : " Let holy church receive him duly. Since he paid the church-tithes truly.
Página 101 - hopeful gentleman In's mother's right. These wretched eminent things Leave no more fame behind 'em, than should one Fall in a frost, and leave his print in snow ; As soon as the sun shines, it ever melts, Both form and matter. I have ever thought Nature doth nothing so great for great men As when she's
Página 97 - the church so well, and gave BO largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till dooms-day ; but all things have their end : Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have. Echo. Like death that we have. Delio. Now the echo hath caught you. Ant. It groan'd, methought,
Página 64 - as those that deny purgatory, It locally contains or heaven or hell ; There's no third place in't. Duch. How do you affect it ? Ant. My banishment, feeding my melancholy, Would often reason thus. Duch. Pray, let's hear it. Ant. Say a man never marry, nor have children, What takes that from him ? only the bare name Of
Página 65 - Duck. Do not think of them : All discord without this circumference Is only to be pitied, and not fear'd : Yet, should they know it, time will easily Scatter the tempest. Ant. These words should be mine, And all the parts you have spoke, if some part of it Would not have savour'd flattery.
Página 97 - river lies a wall, Piece of a cloister, which in my opinion Gives the best echo that you ever heard, So hollow and so dismal, and withal So plain in the distinction of our words, That many have suppos'd it is a spirit That answers. Ant. I do love these ancient ruins. We
Página 3 - Willingly, and not ignorantly, in this kind have I faulted : for, should a man present to such an auditory the most sententious tragedy that ever was written, observing all the critical laws, as height of style, and gravity of person, enrich it with the sententious Chorus, and,
Página 85 - account this world a tedious theatre, For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will. Bos. Come, be of comfort; I will save your life. Duck. Indeed, I have not leisure to tend So small a business. Bot. Now, by my life, I pity you. Duch. Thou art a fool, then,
Página 84 - us'd to't, and she seems Rather to welcome the end of misery Than shun it ; a behaviour so noble As gives a majesty to adversity : You may discern the shape of loveliness More perfect in her tears than in her smiles : She will muse four hours together ; and her silence, Methinks,