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John Ford: Citations en anglais

“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”

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John Ford (dramatist) Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)

“He hath shook hands with time.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act V, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.”

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John Ford (dramatist) Love's Sacrifice

Love's Sacrifice, Act I, sc. i. (1632?)

“Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets ([1808] 1854) p. 228.
Criticism

“There is a place,
List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault,
Where day is never seen; there shines no sun,
But flaming horror of consuming fires;
A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs
Of an infected darkness; in this place
Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts
Of never-dying deaths.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Revenge proves its own executioner.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act IV, sc. i.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“There's not a hair
Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet,
It sinks me to the grave: I must creep thither;
The journey is not long.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act IV, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“A bachelor
May thrive by observation, on a little.
A single life's no burden: but to draw
In yokes is chargeable, and will require
A double maintenance.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii.

“He is a noble gentleman; withal
Happy in his endeavours: the general voice
Sounds him for courtesy, behaviour, language,
And every fair demeanour, an example:
Titles of honour add not to his worth;
Who is himself an honour to his title.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)

“I am, gay creature,
With pardon of your deities, a mushroom
On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes
Locked in endless dreams
Th' extreme of all extremes
Ope no more, for now Love dies.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)

“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”

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John Ford (dramatist) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Act V, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Glories
Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams,
And shadows soon decaying.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act III, sc. v.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,
Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“Ford is rather a sculptor of character than a painter.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Algernon Charles Swinburne Essays and Studies ([1875] 1888) p. 278.
Criticism

“We can drink till all look blue.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act IV, sc. ii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)

“The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth,
Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet,
Sinews of concord, earthly immortality,
Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives
Like to a constant woman!”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act II, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.”

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John Ford (dramatist) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Act III, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Philosophers dwell in the moon.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii. (1635-6)

“Nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But heaven admits no jest.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. i.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Green indiscretion, flattery of greatness,
Rawness of judgement, wilfulness in folly,
Thoughts vagrant as the wind, and as uncertain.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act II, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Why, I hold fate
Clasped in my fist, and could command the course
Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been
One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act V, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act V, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“I have spent
Many a silent night in sighs and groans,
Ran over all my thoughts, despised my fate,
Reasoned against the reasons of my love,
Done all that smoothed-cheek Virtue could advise,
But found all bootless: 'tis my destiny
That you must either love, or I must die.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)

“Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play
With the severity of fate.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Flattery
Is monstrous in a true friend.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

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