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"We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them." |
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John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). Bosola, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 5, sc. 4, l. 53-4 (1623).
See Shakespeare's comment on "life and death," expressing a similar idea.
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"Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards, and bedews the heavens." |
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John Webster (1580-1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). Bosola, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc. 2, l. 260-2 (1623).
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