Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance in Two Parts ...K. Paul, Trench, 1883 - 427 páginas |
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Adriana Aeswyn Artevelde's blood Bosch Bourbon bring Bruges Bulsen Burgomaster Burgundy Captain Cecile Clara Constable Constable of France D'Arlon death Duke DUKE OF BOURBON DUKE OF BURGUNDY Earl of Flanders ears Elena Exeunt Exit eyes Father John Flemish FLEUREANT OF HEURLÉE France Frans Ackerman Friar friends Ghent Gilbert Matthew give God's Grace hand hath hear heard heart Heaven King Kortz Lady Lestovet live look Lord of Arlon Lord of Occo Market-place Master Messenger mind mount Muck ne'er never night Oudenarde pardon peace Philip Van Artevelde Raneval Regent Roosdyk Saimpi Sanxere SCENE Scheldt seem'd Sir Fleureant Sir Guisebert Sir Simon sleep soul speak stand tell thee There's thine Thou art thou hast thought to-morrow town truth Twas Van den Bosch Van Muck Van Ryk Vauclaire Whelk wherefore whilst White-Hoods Woman word Ypres
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Página xiii - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 1 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 420 - Also because there be some that, taking pleasure in contemplating their own power in the acts of conquest, which they pursue farther than their security requires, if others, that otherwise would be glad to be at ease within modest bounds, should not by invasion increase their power, they would not be able, long time, by standing only on their defence, to subsist. And by consequence, such augmentation of dominion over men being necessary to a man's conservation, it ought to be allowed him.
Página 126 - There lies a sleeping city. God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall, How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd ! — If when the shows had left the dreamers...
Página 398 - Was he endow'd, — courage, discretion, wit ; An equal temper, and an ample soul, Rock-bound and fortified against assaults Of transitory passion, but below Built on a surging subterranean fire, That stirr'd and lifted him to high attempts.
Página 333 - Quoth tongue of neither maid nor wife To heart of neither wife nor maid, Lead we not here a jolly life Betwixt the shine and shade. Quoth heart of neither maid nor wife To tongue of neither wife nor maid, Thou wag"st, but I am worn with strife, And feel like flowers that fade.
Página 28 - Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks...
Página 235 - Order1 d the common weal ; where great men grew Up to their natural eminence, and none Saving the wise, just, eloquent, were great ; Where power was of God's gift to whom he gave Supremacy of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administer'd, Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The tools of State for service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates.
Página 397 - To use it so. Dire rebel though he was, Yet with a noble nature and great gifts Was he endowed : courage, discretion, wit, An equal temper and an ample soul, Rock-bound and fortified against assaults Of transitory passion, but below Built on a surging subterranean fire That stirred and lifted him to high attempts.
Página 368 - And I perceived the river and the bridge, The mottled sky and horizontal moon, The distant camp, and all things as they were. Elena. If you are not afraid to see such things, I am to hear them. Go not near that bridge ; — You said that something happened there before — Oh, cross it not again. Artevelde. Not cross the bridge ? The river cannot otherwise be passed.