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The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ... - Page 167
by Christopher Marlowe - 1826
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Literary Essays

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Literature - 1878 - 400 pages
...one of the dazzling treasure vault of Marlowe's rich Jew of Malta : Infinite riches in a little room, Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths,...emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of...
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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece

John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1879 - 456 pages
...metre without injury to its music, Marlowe wrote these descriptive lines in the 'Jew of Malta : ' — Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths,...great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captmty. The licence of the first and third...
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Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe: Palermo, Syracuse and Girgenti ...

John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1880 - 404 pages
...iambic metre without injury to its music, Marlowe wrote these descriptive lines in the Jew of Malta : Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts. Jacinths,...emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And scld seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, May serve, in peril...
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Free lance, tiltings in many lists, by C. J. Dunphie and A. King

Charles James Dunphie - 1881 - 416 pages
...riches up, And in his house, heap pearls like pebble-stones ; Receive them free, and sell them by their weight ; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts,...emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld•seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a carat of...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...modulations of these lines — in particular, the during but successful license of the first and third: 'Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths,...great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity.' Or the changeful temper, the...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 538 pages
...of these lines — in particular, the •daring but successful license of the first and third: • Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubles, sparkling diamonds, And seld seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently...
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Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama

John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...eastern rocks Without control can pick his riches up, And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones, Receive them free, and sell them by the weight ; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacynths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4

John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...eastern rocks Without control can pick his riches up, And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones, Receive them free, and sell them by the weight ; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacynths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly...
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The Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe: (Selected.) With a Prefatory ...

Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - English drama - 1885 - 354 pages
...eastern rocks I Without control can pick his riches up, And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones, Receive them free, and sell them by the weight ; Bags...emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a carat of this...
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Dramatic Works, Selected

Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 250 pages
...eastern rocks Without control can pick his riches up, And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones, Receive them free, and sell them by the weight ; Bags...emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, in differently rated, And of a carat of...
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