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according action active ambition Antony appears bear beauty become believe better Brutus Cæsar called carried cause character circumstances close comedy considered contrast Coriolanus dangerous death deed Desdemona doubt drama effect entirely equally evil excited experience expression eyes falls fate father fear feeling follows friends given gives greater ground Hamlet hand happiness heart honour human idea ideal imagination impression Italy kind king knows Lear less lies living look Macbeth manner matter means mind moral murder nature never noble object once origin Othello passion period piece play poet poetic poetry political possesses possible present principles qualities reason regard relation represented respect revenge says scene seems sense severe Shake Shakespeare side soul speaks spirit stands strength things thinks thought tragedy tragic true truth virtue weakness whole wife
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Page 232 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 53 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 464 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 142 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 191 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Page 238 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 330 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 463 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 136 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 228 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2 Shakespeare Commentaries, Georg Gottfried Gervinus |
| Author | Georg Gottfried Gervinus |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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