Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas: A Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama from Its Origin Down to Shakespeare

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Joseph Quincy Adams
Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 712 pages
 

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Page 9 - These things are done in imitation of the angel sitting in the monument, and the women with spices coming to anoint the body of Jesus.
Page 25 - Fear not, for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Page 22 - What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad ? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem^ and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Page 286 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 32 - And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Page 22 - O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 527 - O happy wight that suffers not the snare Of murderous mind to tangle him in blood : And happy he that can in time beware By others...
Page 572 - ... you may his nature rightly know : A roister ought not preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve, so ought his words appear : The old man is sober, the young man rash, the lover triumphing in joys. The matron grave, the harlot wild, and full of wanton toys. Which all in one course they no wise do agree; So correspondent to their kind their speeches ought to be.
Page 503 - In such plight after long wandring she came at length home to 15 the sight of her frendes who scant knew her but by a few tokens and markes remayning. They, the authors I meane, though they were very much displeased that she so ranne abroad without leaue, whereby she caught her shame, as many wantons do, yet seing the case as it is remedilesse, haue for common honestie 20 and shamefastnesse new apparelled, trimmed, and attired her in such forme as she was before.
Page 454 - Sirs, see that my harness, my target, and my shield, Be made as bright now, as when I was last in field, As white as I should to war again to-morrow : For sick shall I be, but I work some folk sorrow.

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