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" Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear, But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying. "
The Foundations of English Literature: A Study of the Development of English ... - Page 346
by Fred Lewis Pattee - 1899 - 394 pages
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The Works of John Webster, Volume 1

John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, shew white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die by dying. Art thou gone ? And thou so near the bottom : false report, Which says that women vie with the nine...
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The Works of John Webster, Volume 1

John Webster, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1830 - 384 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, shew white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die by dying. Art thou gone ? And thou so near the bottom : false report, Which says that women vie with the nine...
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The Dramatic Works of John Webster, Volume 2

John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 296 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear ; But seas do laugh, shew white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die by dying. Art thou gone ? And thou so near the bottom : false report, 1 A Toledo, or an English Fox? Toledo....
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The History of British Journalism: From the Foundation of the ..., Volume 2

Alexander Andrews - English newspapers - 1859 - 644 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die by dying. Art thou gone? And thou so near the bottom? . . . VIT.COR. 0, happy they that never saw the court,...
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The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes

John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 424 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying. Art thou gone ? And thou so near the bottom ? false report, Which says that women vie with the nine...
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Italian Byways

John Addington Symonds - Italy - 1883 - 354 pages
...or all the elements by scruples, I know not, nor greatly care. At the last moment he yet can say : We cease to grieve, cease to be Fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying. And again, with the very yielding of his spirit : My life was a black charnel. It will be seen that...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 44; Volume 107

American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...not depend upon the merit of a casual passage here or there, it would be easy to select from any one of his representative plays such examples of the highest,...be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying. There is a depth of severe sense in them, a height of heroic scorn, or a dignity of quiet cynicism,...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 19

Nineteenth century - 1886 - 988 pages
...of our own day might call it, of certitude. here or there, it would be easy to select from any one of his representative plays such examples of the highest,...We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Xny, cease to die, by dying. There is a depth of severe sense in them, a height of heroic scorn, or...
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Webster & Tourneur

John Webster, Cyril Tourneur - English drama - 1888 - 472 pages
...anchor. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear ; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying. Art thou gone ? And thou so near the bottom ? false report, Which says that women vie with the nine...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 51

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1889 - 516 pages
...of single lines. Such dying cries as Brachianno's invocation to "soft natural death"; Flamineo's " We cease to grieve, cease to be Fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying ;" or his sister's " My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither ;" Ferdinand's...
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