Peele was well known there as master of the revels and overseer of the pageants, and was readily admitted.
John Dennis wrote to the Master of the Revels to expostulate with him for having licensed this play, which he considered as a prostitution of the stage, an encouragement to villainy, and a disgrace to the theatre.
But a stream of sunshine is let loose, and the gloom is confounded with glory; over all that night-like reign the jocund day goes dancing, and the forest revels in green or in golden light.
What luck is this, that our revels are dash'd, now was I beginning to glister in the very highway of preferment.
The revels would have been most sumptuous to-night, if they had gone forward.
I would therevels were done once, I might go to my school of glass again, and learn to do myself right after all this ruffling.
Revels and feasts in quick succession, ever without a break, She chosen always for the spring excursion, chosen for the nightly carouse.
The men who had been prevented from participating in these drunken revels resolved to revenge themselves by a trick.
It shall not be said that lust holds its revels in Vienna, as at the obscene courts of Versailles and St. Petersburg.
Have you had your share in the revels and pageantries?
There, in early morning, before the revels began, Grisell ventured to ask for an audience, and was permitted to follow the Duchess when she returned from mass to her own apartments.
Some heart whose affection can never be blighted, That beats all in concert with that of my own, That revels in pleasures with which I'm delighted, And grieves at the sorrows which cause me to moan.
Naiads and Nymphs hold revels at midnight, Dancing to music that swells from your flow; Dryad and Faun peep out at the moonlight, Thro' rents in green curtains that over you grow.
We will go, Down below, Revels rare, We will share.
Ah, it's all very well, but since our Queen banished Iolanthe, fairy revels have not been what they were!
Whose odors bring the swift remembrance back Of the unhallowed revels in these chambers!
But not for this their revels The jovial monks forbore, For they cried, "Fill high the goblet!
The king delighted to explore into the manuscript plays which were laid before the master of the revels for his license.
Pyrrhonism accepts the irrationality and revels in its dialectic elaboration.
Let the sun go down Soon, very soon," muttered bearded old Revels As he peered at the sun, lying low on his back, Holding fast to his lasso.
We lay low in the grass on the broad plain levels, Old Revels and I, and my stolen brown bride; And the heavens of blue and the harvest of brown And beautiful clover were welded as one, To the right and the left, in the light of the sun.
Old Gudyill associated himself with a party so much to his taste, pretty much as Davy, in the Second Part of Henry the Fourth, mingles in the revels of his master, Justice Shallow.
Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains.
Presiding Spirit here to-day Dost lead therevels of the May; And this is thy dominion.
The lieutenant revelsin adventure, and any skirmish excites his vigorous sympathy.
This sort of conversation brought us, in the highest good-humour with each other, to Osbaldistone Hall, where we found the family far advanced in the revels of the evening.
His condemnation of theirrevels was evident, from their being discontinued in some measure when the priest was a resident at the Hall.
Coulin--are traditionally supposed to have been overheard by mortal harpers at the revels of the Fairy Folk.
The noise of Adonijah's revels had not disturbed his quiet.
A hundred eighty days continuous feast He has oppressed the people of his rule With drunken revels and with wanton waste.
Vashti Oh, Zethar, do you think this night will end The revels that dishonor Persia's king?
Women, wine and happy song, Let the revels ring, Lift your voices loud and long, For Xerxes is our king.
Forth from their revels they rush over its precipitous sides, and ships become their play-things, and man their prey!
It was just one year from the day and hour when Senator Revelstook his seat in the United States Senate that Jefferson F.
Revels from Mississippi, from which the head of the Southern Confederacy had come in former days!
He no longer sports in the meadows of thought, or revels in the exuberance of imagination, but becomes barren and unsatisfactory.
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