The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant: With Prefatory Memoir and Notes, Volume 3William Paterson, 1873 |
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Page 4 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 253 - Lovers,"1 a good play and well performed, especially the little girl's (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing ; and were it not for her, the losse of Roxalana would spoil the house.
Page 141 - ... however, there was some difficulty, as, by the regulations of the game, the middle couple were not to separate before they had succeeded, while the others might break hands whenever they found themselves hard pressed. When all had been taken in turn, the last couple were said to be in hell, and the game ended.
Page 250 - This disappointment had such an effect upon him, that he could neither eat nor drink : this did not signify to him : but his passion at length became so violent that he could neither play nor smoke. In this extremity, Love had recourse to Hymen ; the Earl of Oxford, one of the first peers of the realm, is...
Page 216 - Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day ; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators...
Page 288 - Tis love that has a fever got ; Love that is violently hot, But troubled with cold and trembling fits. 'Tis yet a more unnatural evil : 'Tis the god of love, 'tis the god of love, possessed with a devil.
Page 239 - That Sir William D'avenant's Siege of Rhodes was the first opera we ever had in England no man can deny ; and is indeed a perfect opera, there being this difference only between an opera and a tragedy, that the one is a story sung with proper action, the other spoken. And he must be a very ignorant player, who knows not there is a musical cadence in speaking ; and that a man may as well speak out of tune as sing out of tune.
Page 255 - of their house : and he is much with her in private, and she goes to him, and do give him many presents ; and that the thing is most certain, and...