Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the Reign of Elizabeth, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
arms Barbary falcon Bartholomew Fair bear-baiting beggars Ben Jonson bird bitterns called cambric cards carried Cheapside cheat citizens cloak cloth Cock Lorel coloured court cried crowd cut-work dangerous Decker's deer dice dinner dogs door doublets dress drink Elizabeth Elizabethan fair falconer fashion favourite feathers Fleet Street flight French frequently gallant garden gentleman Gleek gold gowns gull hall hand hath hawk head horn horse hose hounds hunting huntsman Italian jewels keeper knave lace ladies Laneham laughed London Lord master night noble Paul's Peregrine Falcons play poor Post and Pair prentices prison Puritan purse Queen rapier rich rogues roses round ruffs sack satin Saviolo says servants serving-men Shakspere Shakspere's shillings silk silver smoke sometimes Street sword taffety tavern thief thieves thou tobacco trick Tyburn velvet walk watch watchmen whipped window wine wore young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 74 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Seite 185 - Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Seite 334 - I asked you six crowns, and six crowns at other times you have paid me; you shall not give me six crowns, nor five, nor four, nor three, nor two, nor one; nor half a ducat; no, nor a muccinigo. Sixpence it will cost you, or six hundred pound - expect no lower price, for, by the banner of my front, I will not bate...
Seite 163 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 333 - I spared nor cost nor labour, where any thing was worthy to be learned. And, gentlemen, honourable gentlemen, I will undertake, by virtue of chemical art, out of the honourable hat that covers your head, to extract the four elements; that is to say, the fire, air, water, and earth, and return you your felt without burn or stain. For, whilst others have been at the Balloo, I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.
Seite 183 - So, sir. Come on: O, twine your body more about, that you may fall to a more sweet, comely, gentlemanlike guard; so! indifferent: hollow your body more, sir, thus: now, stand fast o' your left leg, note your distance, keep your due proportion of time— oh, you disorder your point most irregularly.
Seite 332 - O, health ! health ! the blessing of the rich ! the riches of the poor ! who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this world without thee ? Be not then so sparing of your purses, honourable gentlemen, as to abridge the natural course of life
Seite 33 - They have also other kinds of cuts innumerable; and therefore when you come to be trimmed, they will ask you whether you will be cut to look terrible to your enemy, or amiable to your friend, grim and stern in countenance, or pleasant and demure (for they have divers kinds of cuts for all these purposes, or else they lie).
Seite 185 - Amb. Or shall we teach it you, By the head and shoulders? Well. No; I will not stir; Do you mark, I will not. Let me see the wretch That dares attempt to force me. Why, you slaves, Created only to make legs...
Seite i - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...