Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... actors little depended in works only written for represen- tation , ) we know well , that he undertook very essential improvements on a large scale , sometimes even completely remodelling his pieces . But the " break " , which Ben ...
... actors little depended in works only written for represen- tation , ) we know well , that he undertook very essential improvements on a large scale , sometimes even completely remodelling his pieces . But the " break " , which Ben ...
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... actors , that a sincere repentance was indeed unimagin- able in Angelo , and were we to admit that " severe indignant justice " is the only true justice , a justice in this instance well employed . To form a correct judgment on these ...
... actors , that a sincere repentance was indeed unimagin- able in Angelo , and were we to admit that " severe indignant justice " is the only true justice , a justice in this instance well employed . To form a correct judgment on these ...
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... actor who represented the gross hypocrisy , arising from the systematic selfishness of a villain like Richard , and the regardless contempt of all show , founded as in Prince Henry on the absence of all selfishness ; the demand is here ...
... actor who represented the gross hypocrisy , arising from the systematic selfishness of a villain like Richard , and the regardless contempt of all show , founded as in Prince Henry on the absence of all selfishness ; the demand is here ...
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... acting in an irresponsible condition , would never win our sympathy for his tragic fate . But could it be conceivable , that such a deed could ever be committed by a man of fixed character and steadfast disposition , who indeed before ...
... acting in an irresponsible condition , would never win our sympathy for his tragic fate . But could it be conceivable , that such a deed could ever be committed by a man of fixed character and steadfast disposition , who indeed before ...
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... actors . Throughout he seeks to hide himself behind truths , when he has lies and deceit in his heart . He would fain deceive even his own conscience , and as guiltless as possible perpetrate his deeds , casting the appearance and the ...
... actors . Throughout he seeks to hide himself behind truths , when he has lies and deceit in his heart . He would fain deceive even his own conscience , and as guiltless as possible perpetrate his deeds , casting the appearance and the ...
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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.