The Dramatic Works, Volume 2W. Paterson, 1872 |
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The Dramatic Works: With Prefatory Memoir and Notes, Volume 2 William D'Avenant Affichage du livre entier - 1872 |
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AMAD Amadine ARIO Ariola ARNOLDO bawd Ben Jonson brother BUON Castraganio chest constable court daughter death doth Duke Earl ears ELDER PALLATINE Engine Enter YOUNGER PALLATINE Eurithea Exeunt Exit eyes fame fear FRED Fredeline gentlemen GINET give gold GRID GRIDONELL haste hath hear heart Heaven hither honour hope husband i'th in's Inigo Jones JASP JASPERO King Lady Ample live Lord lovers Luce LUCY Madam Majesty married Masque Master master constable Meager ne'er night Pall PERT PHYL Phylomont Platonic Platonic Love Platonick Platonick Lovers play poets pray Queasy Salmacida Spolia Scene SCIO SCIOLTO shew signior Sir Morglay Sir Tyrant sister sleep SNORE stay straight strange sure sweet THEA Theander thee thought THRIFT THWACK twill unto vex'd watchet Wharton whilst wife William D'Avenant woman young
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Page 29 - Shakespeare, in this sentence, when he mentions cannon, falls into a sad anachronism. " No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the King's rouse shall bruit it back again, Bespeaking earthly thunder.
Page 203 - which is, where any money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, is found hidden in the earth, or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown ; in which case the treasure belongs to the king : but if he that hid it
Page 48 - BUON. You make all knowledge But deception, sir ; and cheaters of the learn'd philosophers. * Strength in reason.—Folio. t Deviation. " No natural exhalation in the sky, No scape of nature, no distemper'd day, But they will pluck away its nat'ral cause, And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs.
Page 102 - month he again mentions having visited "the opera, and saw 'The Wits,' which I like exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia was here brought by my Lord Craven. Troubled in mind that I cannot bring myself to mind my business, but to be so much in love of plays.
Page 289 - to govern any party, this lively man changed the free air of Westminster for the gloom of the Escurial, the prospects of King George's Garter for the Pretender's ; and with indifference to all religion, the frolic lord who had writ the ballad on the Archbishop of Canterbury, died in the habit of a capuchin,"* at the age of
Page 315 - After this song the spheres passed through the air, and all the deities ascended, and so concluded this Masque : which was generally approved of, especially by all strangers that were present, to be the noblest and most ingenious that hath been done here in that kind. The Invention, ornament, scenes and apparitions, with their descriptions, were
Page 299 - but this victory was gotten with great damage and slaughter of the Thebans, for few of them returned alive to their city. The allusion is, that his Majesty out of his mercy and clemency approving the first Proverb, seeks by all means to reduce tempestuous and turbulent natures into a sweet calm of
Page 212 - attending the feudal system, by the stat. 12 Charles II., c. 24. Before that time, Blackstone observes, " while the infant was in ward, the guardian had the power of tendering him or her a suitable match, without
Page 241 - to his mechanical skill. D'avenant affably acquaints the public that " The inventions, ornaments, scenes, and apparitions, with the descriptions, were made by Iñigo Jones, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Works ; what was spoken or sung, by William D'avenant, his Majesty's servant." Heywood, also, bowing to the stage carpenter, thus observes :— " So much for the subject itself, but for the rare