Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... characters , the shallow figures of his romantic comedies , wholly cease from this time . If we have found the poet ... character throughout serious , elegiac , and tragic , appears predominant in a great series of the creations of the ...
... characters , the shallow figures of his romantic comedies , wholly cease from this time . If we have found the poet ... character throughout serious , elegiac , and tragic , appears predominant in a great series of the creations of the ...
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... character . The Duke in conferring upon Angelo the post of deputy , has before him the double aim of testing how he will be affected in this wider field of action , to what steps his severe morality will lead him , and what influence ...
... character . The Duke in conferring upon Angelo the post of deputy , has before him the double aim of testing how he will be affected in this wider field of action , to what steps his severe morality will lead him , and what influence ...
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... character , of personal purity and forbearance for the weakness of others , of tenderness and firmness , of womanly timidity , aye , even of mistrust of herself and the surest decision of action , of modesty and ability , of humility ...
... character , of personal purity and forbearance for the weakness of others , of tenderness and firmness , of womanly timidity , aye , even of mistrust of herself and the surest decision of action , of modesty and ability , of humility ...
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... character have been a greater benefit than this shame ? His life is , however , to be spared and he is to be raised . from his fall . The poet , in this character , has designed a new variation of his favourite theme of show . The task ...
... character have been a greater benefit than this shame ? His life is , however , to be spared and he is to be raised . from his fall . The poet , in this character , has designed a new variation of his favourite theme of show . The task ...
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... characters and in the contrast of their position with regard to each other . The single character of Angelo , with the unnaturally over - strained exaggeration of his nature , counterbalances alone a series of contrasts ; with his ...
... characters and in the contrast of their position with regard to each other . The single character of Angelo , with the unnaturally over - strained exaggeration of his nature , counterbalances alone a series of contrasts ; with his ...
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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.