Sir George Etheredge: sein Leben, seine Zeit und seine Dramen, Volumen14

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W. Braumüller, 1901 - 278 páginas
 

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Página 49 - EPITAPH ON CHARLES II. Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Página 128 - But, Lord! to see how they were both painted, would make a man mad, and did make me loath them ; and what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk...
Página 63 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Página 245 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 245 - Then value. Oft-times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well managed.
Página 246 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not : love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges: hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou mayst ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Página 231 - To a great rambling lone house that looks as it were not inhabited, the family's so small ; there you'll find my mother, an old lame aunt, and myself, sir, perched up on chairs at a distance in a large parlour, sitting moping like three or four melancholy birds in a spacious volery.
Página 124 - A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called the Moor of Venice...
Página 231 - May he hate me — a curse that frights me when I speak it — if ever I do a thing against the rules of decency and honour!
Página 45 - King's presence; which do give much offence to the people here at Court to see how cheap the King makes himself, and the more, for that the King hath not only passed by the thing and pardoned it to Rochester already...

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