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according action active ambition Antony appears bear beauty become believe better Brutus Cæsar called carried cause character circumstances close cloth comedy considered contrast Coriolanus dangerous death deed Desdemona doubt drama effect entirely equally evil excited experience expression 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 piece play poet poetic poetry political possesses possible present Price 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 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 64 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Page 295 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Page 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Page 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 328 - 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 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2 Shakespeare Commentaries, Georg Gottfried Gervinus |
| Author | Georg Gottfried Gervinus |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2007 |
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