The Complete Works of John Webster, Volume 4

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Chatto & Windus, 1927
 

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Page 30 - She dares go alone, and unfold sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none ; yet, to say truth, she is never alone, but is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Page 44 - Eve, the hoky, or seed cake, these he yeerely keepes, yet holds them no reliques of popery. He is not so inquisitive after newes derived from the privie closet, when the finding an eiery of hawkes in his owne ground, or the foaling of a colt come of a good straine, are tydings more pleasant, more profitable.
Page 43 - ... penknives. When he builds, no poor tenant's cottage hinders his prospect: they are indeed his almshouses, though there be painted on them no such superscription. He never sits up late, but when he hunts the badger, the...
Page 42 - Whatsoever is commendable to the grave orator is most exquisitely perfect in him, for by a full and significant action of body he charms our attention. Sit in a full theatre and you will think you see so many lines drawn from the circumference of so many ears, while the actor is the centre.
Page 43 - This day one plays a monarch, the next a private person. Here one acts a tyrant, on the morrow an exile. A parasite this man tonight, tomorrow a precisian, and so of divers others.
Page 44 - ... more profitable. He is lord paramount within himself, though he hold by never so mean a tenure, and dies the more contentedly, (though he leave his heir young) in regard, he leaves him not liable to a covetous guardian. Lastly, to end him ; he cares not when his end comes ; he needs not fear his audit, for his quietus is in heaven.
Page 44 - A Purueiour of Tobacco. CALL him a Broker of Tobacco, he scornes the title, hee had rather be tearmed a cogging Merchant. Sir John Falstaffe robb'd with a bottle of Sacke; so doth hee take mens purses, with a wicked roule of Tobacco at his girdle.
Page 38 - For her childrens sake she first marries, for she married that she might have children, and for their sakes she marries no more.
Page 43 - He is much affected to painting, and 'tis a question whether that make him an excellent player, or his playing an exquisite painter.
Page 30 - Orator to commend vertue, therefore minds it not. All her excellencies stand in her so silently, as if they had stolne upon her without her knowledge. The lining of her apparell (which is her selfe) is farre better than...

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