Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan AgeArthur Henry Bullen |
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Page xvi
... bird . Webster has three lyrical passages of deep impressiveness - the dirge in The White Devil ( " Call for the robin- redbreast and the wren " ) , the passing - song in The Duchess of Malfi ( " Hark , now everything is still " ) , and ...
... bird . Webster has three lyrical passages of deep impressiveness - the dirge in The White Devil ( " Call for the robin- redbreast and the wren " ) , the passing - song in The Duchess of Malfi ( " Hark , now everything is still " ) , and ...
Page xvii
... birds that sit and sing . " The hymns to Dian and Ceres in The Golden Age and Silver Age , and the address to Phoebus in Love's Mistress , are graceful and me- lodious . I have not included Heywood's jocular songs ; some are amusing ...
... birds that sit and sing . " The hymns to Dian and Ceres in The Golden Age and Silver Age , and the address to Phoebus in Love's Mistress , are graceful and me- lodious . I have not included Heywood's jocular songs ; some are amusing ...
Page xxvii
... birds the Phænix doth excel ( Lodge ) . Of Pan we sing , the best of singers , Pan ( Ben Jonson ) On a day - alack the day ! ( Shakespeare ) On women Nature did bestow two eyes ( Greene ) . Once Venus ' cheeks , that shamed the morn ...
... birds the Phænix doth excel ( Lodge ) . Of Pan we sing , the best of singers , Pan ( Ben Jonson ) On a day - alack the day ! ( Shakespeare ) On women Nature did bestow two eyes ( Greene ) . Once Venus ' cheeks , that shamed the morn ...
Page xxx
... bird so sings , yet so does wail ? ( Lyly ) What makes me so unnimbly rise ( Townshend ) What powerful charms my ... birds whose warblings prove ( Mabbe ) . You spotted snakes with double tongue ( Shakespeare ) . You virgins that did ...
... bird so sings , yet so does wail ? ( Lyly ) What makes me so unnimbly rise ( Townshend ) What powerful charms my ... birds whose warblings prove ( Mabbe ) . You spotted snakes with double tongue ( Shakespeare ) . You virgins that did ...
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... birds sang sweet in the middes of the day ; I dreamed fast of mirth and play : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go ; But when I waked it was not so : In ...
... birds sang sweet in the middes of the day ; I dreamed fast of mirth and play : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go ; But when I waked it was not so : In ...
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Anthony Munday arms arrows beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bless bliss bright chaste cheeks Chorus Cuckoo Cupid dance dead death delight dong doth drink eyes face fair fairy fancy fear fire flowers fool Gipsy golden golden slumbers grace green grief Hark haste hath heart heaven Hecate Heigh honour Hymen JAMES SHIRLEY'S John Fletcher Jonson king kiss lady lass Love's lovers Luminalia lusty Lyly's lyrical maid Maid's Metamorphosis Masque merrily merry mistress N'oserez Nathaniel Field never Nice Valour night nymph Phillis Phoebe pity play pleasure poem pretty queen Robert Greene Robin Hood rose Shakespeare shepherd shine sigh sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spring stay swain sweet tears thee Thetis thing THOMAS Thomas Lodge thou art tree unto Venus virgins vowed wanton weep Whilst wind wings Witch youth