James Shirley

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Vizetelly & Company, 1888 - 466 páginas

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Página iv - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página xxi - Sherley hath read this approbation, I know it will encourage him to pursue this beneficial and cleanly way of poetry, and when other poetts heare and see his good success, I am confident they will imitate the original for their own credit, and make such copies in this harmless way, as shall speak them masters in their art, at the first sight, to all judicious spectators. It may be acted this 3 July, 1633. "I have entered this allowance, for direction to my successor, and for example to all poetts,...
Página 267 - I have done ; and howsoever My language may appear to you, it carries No other than my fair and just intent To your delights, without curb to their modest, And noble freedom.
Página 167 - His soul acquainted ? can he less than tremble, When I lift up my arm to wound his counterfeit? * Witches can persecute the lives of whom They hate, when they torment their senseless figures, And stick the waxen model full of pins. Can any stroke of mine carry less spell To wound his heart, sent with as great a malice ? He smiles, he smiles upon me ! I will dig Thy wanton eyes out, and supply the dark And hollow cells with two pitch-burning tapers ; Then place thee porter in some charnel-house, To...
Página 211 - B. Lady, you are welcome to the spring ; the Park Looks fresher to salute you : how the birds On every tree sing, with more cheerfulness At your access, as if they prophesied Nature would die, and resign her providence To you, fit only to succeed her ! Jut. You express A master of all complement; I have Nothing but plain humility, my lord, To answer you.
Página 282 - Frederick, and is sorry your aunt.s pleasure Commands you from your studies ; but I hope You have no quarrel to the liberal arts : Learning is an addition beyond Nobility of birth. Honour of blood, Without the ornament of knowledge, is A glorious ignorance.
Página 44 - What lady ? the lady i' the lobster ? I was half sick for a foolish thing called a woman ; a toy took me in the head, and had like to have taken away my heart too ; but I have recovered. Do not trust thy body with a physician, he'll make thy foolish bones go without flesh in a fortnight, and thy soul walk without a body a seven-night after. Man. These are no doctors. Aim. Doctor ! art a Parisian, a Paduan, or a Leyden 1 doctor?
Página 386 - Your own takes too much license, and will soon Fall to the censure of unruly tongues. Because Alvarez has a softer cheek, Can, like a woman, trim his wanton hair, Spend half a day with looking in the glass, To find a posture to present himself, And bring more effeminacy than man, Or honour, to your bed, must he supplant him ? Take heed, the common murmur, when it catches The scent of a lost fame — Duch. My fame, lord Cardjnal ? It stands upon an innocence as clear As the devotions you pay to Heaven.
Página 266 - You look not through the subtilty of cards, And mysteries of dice ; nor can you save Charge with the box, buy petticoats and pearls, And keep your family by the precious income ; Nor...
Página xxix - You virgins, that did late despair To keep your wealth from cruel men, Tie up in silk your careless hair : Soft peace is come again. Now lovers' eyes may gently shoot A flame that will not kill ; The drum was angry, but the lute Shall whisper what you will. Sing lo, lo ! for his sake...

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