The plays of Philip Massinger, adapted for family reading and the use of young persons, Volume 21830 |
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Page 223 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 189 - No more, I pray you. Luke. Of this, be sure, you shall not I'll cut off Whatever is exorbitant in you, Or in your daughters, and reduce you to Your natural forms and habits ; not in revenge Of your base usage of me, but...
Page 162 - My brother made thy place of rest his bosom, Thou being the keeper of his heart, a mistress To be hugg'd ever ! In by-corners of This sacred room, silver in bags, heap'd up Like billets saw'd and ready for the tire, Unworthy to hold fellowship with bright gold That flow'd about the room, conceal'd itself.
Page 187 - And your sweet mistress-ship ladyfied, you wore Satin on solemn days, a chain of gold, A velvet hood, rich borders, and sometimes A dainty miniver cap, a silver pin, Headed with a pearl worth three-pence, and thus far You were privileged, and no man envied it ; It being for the city's honour that There should be a distinction between The wife of a patrician and plebeian.
Page 237 - ... and looks backward, And mankind trembles to see me pursue What beasts would fly from. For when I advance This sword, as I must do, against your head, Piety will weep, and filial duty mourn, To see their altars which you built up in me, In a moment razed and ruin'd.
Page 370 - T is writ for me, — WE CANNOT HELP IT. Or, when a covetous man 's express'd, whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number, and whose lordships A falcon in one day cannot fly over, Yet he so sordid in his mind...
Page 368 - To endure the frosts of danger, nay, of death, To be thought worthy the triumphal wreath By glorious undertakings, may deserve Reward or favour from the commonwealth ; Actors may put in for as large a share • As all the sects of the philosophers : They with cold precepts...
Page 239 - As a serpent swollen with poison ; who surviving A little longer, with infectious breath, Would render all things near him, like itself, Contagious. Nay, now my anger's up, Ten thousand virgins kneeling at my feet, And with one general cry howling for mercy, Shall not redeem thee.
Page 161 - Twas no fantastic object, but a truth, A real truth ; nor dream : I did not slumber, And could wake ever with a brooding eye To gaze upon't ! it did endure the touch ; I saw and felt it ! Yet what I beheld And handled oft, did so transcend belief, (My wonder and astonishment pass'd o'er,) I faintly could give credit to my senses. Thou dumb magician...
Page 25 - Thou must do, then, What no malevolent star will dare to look on, It is so wicked : for which men will curse thee For being the instrument ; and the blest angels Forsake me at my need, for being the author : For 'tis a deed of night, of night, Francisco ! In which the memory of all good actions We can pretend to shall be buried quick : Or, if we be remember' d, it shall be To fright posterity by our example, That have outgone all precedents of villains That were before us ; and such as succeed, Though...