Mary StuartD. C. Heath & Company, 1906 - 264 páginas |
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ANTHONY BABINGTON aught Babington Ballard blood born Bothwell Burghley Castle Catholic cause charge Chartley Chastelard closet drama conspiracy conspirators counsel Countess of Shrewsbury crave Curle danger Darnley death dramatic Drury Duke of Guise Earl Eliz Elizabeth enemies England English eyes faith Faliero fear Fotheringay Fotheringay Castle France French friends give God's grace hand haply hath hear heart hold honour hope Jane Kennedy king knave letter live Locrine Lord Madam majesty man's Marino Faliero Mary Beaton Mary Stuart Mary's men's murder never nought once Paget Paul Paulet peril play plot poet pray prisoner Queen of Scots sake Scene Scotland secretary sent servants shame Shrewsbury Sir Amias Paulet soul spake speak stand sure Swinburne Swinburne's therein things thou Tixall tongue tragedy traitor treason trilogy trust truth Tutbury Walsingham weep whence wise witness word writ
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Página 241 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Página 243 - O DOMINE DEUS ! speravi in te ; O care mi Jesu ! nunc libera me. In dura catena, in misera poena, Desidero te. Languendo, gemendo, et genuflectendo, Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me !
Página xvi - And space of seven years' darkness, I depart From this distempered and unnatural earth That casts me out unmothered, and go forth On this grey sterile bitter gleaming sea With neither tears nor laughter, but a heart That from the softest temper of its blood Is turned to fire and iron. If I live, If God pluck not all hope out of my hand, If aught of all mine prosper, I that go Shall come back to men's ruin, as a flame The wind bears down, that grows against the wind, And grasps it with great hands,...
Página x - My first if not my strongest ambition was to do something worth doing, and not utterly unworthy of a young countryman of Marlowe the teacher and Webster the pupil of Shakespeare, in the line of work which those three poets had left as a possibly unattainable example for ambitious Englishmen.
Página xxxviii - Marino Faliero,' hopelessly impossible .as it is from the point of view of modern stagecraft, could hardly have been found too untheatrical, too utterly given over to talk without action, by the audiences which endured and applauded the magnificent monotony of Chapman's eloquence — the fervent and inexhaustible declamation which was offered and accepted as a substitute for study of character and interest of action when his two finest plays, if plays they can be...
Página xxiv - And arms unbreached of fireproof constancy — By shame not .shaken, fear or force or death, Change, or all confluence of calamities — And so at her worst need beloved, and still, Naked of help and honour when she seemed, As other women would be, and of hope Stripped, still so of herself adorable By minds not always all ignobly mad Nor all made poisonous with false grain of faith, She shall be a world's wonder to all time, A deadly glory watched of marvelling men Not without praise, not without...
Página 242 - I know not : men must love you in life's spite; For you will always kill them ; man by man Your lips will bite them dead; yea, though you would, You shall not spare one ; all will die of you...
Página 259 - Specimens of Modern Poets / The Heptalogia / or / The Seven against Sense / A Cap with Seven Bells / I. The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell / II.
Página xxix - AND thou, my wife and child, all loves in one, "*-•*- Sweet life, sweet heart, fare ever well, and be Blest of God's holier hand with happier love Than here bids blessing on thee. Hark, the guard Draws hither : noon is full : and where I go Ye may not follow. Be not faint of heart : I go not as a base man goes to death, But great of hope. God cannot will that here Some day shall spring not freedom : nor perchance May we, long dead, not know it, who died of love For dreams that were and truths that...
Página 177 - ... black, Unmerciful, unfaithful, but of heart So fiery high, so swift of spirit and clear, In extreme danger and pain so lifted up, So of all violent things inviolable, So large of courage, so superb of soul, So sheathed with iron mind invincible And arms unbreached of fireproof constancy — By shame not shaken, fear or force or death, Change, or all confluence of calamities — And so at her worst need beloved, and still, Naked of help and honour when she seemed, As other women would be, and...