"Middleton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their aid, Is knowledge, gain'd by man, to man convey'd? But from that source shall all our pleasures flow? Shall all our knowledge be those names to know? Then he, with memory blest, shall bear away The palm from Grew, and Middleton, and Ray: No! let us rather seek, in grove and field, What food for wonder, what for use they yield; Some just remark from Nature's people bring, And some new source of homage for her King. Pride lives with all; strange names our rustics give To helpless ...
— The Parish Register • George Crabbe
... don't do that," said Mr. Middleton, earnestly. "Let me try her again. She has had time to ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... subject? Doubtless; but hitherto, in those lives which have been farthest from eloges, the author has thought it his duty to uphold the general system, polity, or principles upon which his subject has acted. Thus Middleton and all other biographers of Cicero, whilst never meditating any panegyrical account of that statesman, and oftentimes regretting his vanity, for instance, have quite as little thought it allowable to condemn the main political views, theories, and consequently actions, of Cicero. But ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey
... highwayman Marshall, Henry, a deer-stealer Marshal, William, a thief Marshalsea Prison Martin, Jane, a cheat Peter, a Chelsea pensioner Maryland, plantations in Marylebone Massey, Captain John Maycock, Mrs. Medline, Thomas, a highwayman Meff, John, a housebreaker Malvin, a pirate Middleton, Joseph, a housebreaker Miles, Mrs. Miller, William, a highwayman Milliner, Mary Millington Common Minsham, John, a thief Mint, in Southwark Mitcham Molony, John, a thief Monmouth, man-of-war Moody Moorfields Morphew, John ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... act—Duncan's interview with the 'bleeding sergeant'—falls so far below the style of the rest of the play as to suggest that it was an interpolation by a hack of the theatre. The resemblances between Thomas Middleton's later play of 'The Witch' (1610) and portions of 'Macbeth' may safely be ascribed to plagiarism on Middleton's part. Of two songs which, according to the stage directions, were to be sung during the representation of 'Macbeth' (III. v. and IV. i.), only the first line of each is noted there, ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
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