History of Pericles, Prince of TyreHarper, 1892 - 164 pages |
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1st quarto a-land acts adopts Antiochus Bawd Boult call'd Camb Cerimon Clarke Cleon Coll corrected by Malone corrected by Rowe corrected by Steevens critical Cymb Cymbeline daughter dead death Diana Dionyza doth drama early eds early quartos edition editors EDWARD Dowden Enter PERICLES Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes father Fisherman Fleay folio Gentleman give gods HARPER & BROTHERS hast hath hear heart heaven Helicanus honour Julius Cæsar king Knight lady Leonine lord Lychorida Lysimachus maid Malone reads Marina Mason master Mytilene ne'er never noble omit Pandar passages Pentapolis Pericles Pirate play poet prince of Tyre printed prol queen rhyme Rich Rolfe Rolfe's Sailor SCENE SELECT POEMS Shakespeare Shakspere shore Simonides sorrow Steevens conjectures Steevens reads story Tarsus tell Thaisa Thaliard thee thou art thought three quartos unto wife Wilkins's novel Winter's Tale word
Popular passages
Page 57 - Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they 've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.
Page 24 - And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history; not bound to follow the story, but having liberty either to feign a quite new matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical conveniency?
Page 105 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir; Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with great sweetness.