The Complete Works of John Webster, 第 1 卷

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Chatto & Windus, 1927 - 372 頁
 

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第 193 頁 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
第 237 頁 - London Bridge was made for wise men to go over, and fools to go under," shows the popular feeling about its rapids.
第 228 頁 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
第 64 頁 - Loved the church so well, and gave so largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; but all things have their end : Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
第 201 頁 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
第 235 頁 - Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
第 108 頁 - Heywood, wishing what I write may be read by their light ; protesting that, in the strength of mine...
第 39 頁 - Thus nature calls us to meditate of death by those things which are the instruments of acting it ; and God, by all the variety of his providence, makes...
第 62 頁 - Ich bin von keiner Schule; Kein Meister lebt, mit dem ich buhle ; Auch bin ich weit davon entfernt, Daß ich von Toten was gelernt. » Das heißt, wenn ich ihn recht verstand : Ich bin ein Narr auf eigne Hand.
第 228 頁 - Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which th...

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