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John Webster
Geburtstag: 1578
Todesdatum: 1634
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John Webster war ein englischer Dramatiker.
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„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“
— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Act IV, scene ii.
„Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.“
— John Webster
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
„Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.“
— John Webster
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.
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„T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.“
— John Webster
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
„I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.“
— John Webster
Act IV, scene ii. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii, scene 2.
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„I dare truly and boldly say, that one years exercise therein to ingenious spirits, under able Masters, will produce more real and true fruit, than the studying Aristotelian Philosophy hath brought forth in many centuries. O that the Schools therefore would leave their idle, and fruitless speculations, and not be too proud to put their hands to the coals and furnace, where they might find ocular experiments to confute their fopperies, and produce effects that would be beneficial to all posterities.“
— John Webster
Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.
