Joanna Baillies Plays on the passionsW. Braumüller, 1911 - 119 pages |
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Page 5 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed...
Page 25 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 27 - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The Hell within him; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Page 58 - O, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 22 - Chorus prepare resistance at his first approach[:] at last after discourse of enmity on either side he departs[;] whereat the Chorus sings of the battle, and victory in heaven against him and his accomplices, as before after the first act was sung a hymn of the creation.
Page 105 - SEA The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Page 41 - Und es erhob sich ein Streit im Himmel: Michael und seine Engel stritten mit dem Drachen; und der Drache stritt und seine Engel, und siegten nicht, auch ward ihre Stätte nicht mehr gefunden im Himmel.
Page 335 - Now fie on foolish love ! it not befits Or man or woman know it : Love was not meant for people in their wits, And they that fondly show it Betray the straw and feathers in their brain, And shall have Bedlam for their pain, If single love be such a curse, To marry is to make it ten times worse.
Page 50 - But from the author of all ill, could spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spfte The great Creator ? But their spite still serves His glory to augment.
Page 31 - Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence Had risen or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs...