Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... causes we were to trace his more serious , more gloomy frame of mind . We have heard from his sonnets , that at the zenith of his friendship with that favourite youth , some adverse fate befel him , which cast him into affliction and ...
... causes we were to trace his more serious , more gloomy frame of mind . We have heard from his sonnets , that at the zenith of his friendship with that favourite youth , some adverse fate befel him , which cast him into affliction and ...
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... text : Cæsar did never wrong , but with just cause . According to the present judgment of Shakespeare , no one 12 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY . elevated passages, to sentences and concluding verses; the ...
... text : Cæsar did never wrong , but with just cause . According to the present judgment of Shakespeare , no one 12 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY . elevated passages, to sentences and concluding verses; the ...
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... cause of her death , and upon the rack denies his guilt , upon which he is banished and subsequently is put to death by a relative of Disdemona . One sees out of this single comparison , what a gulf even here separates the novel from ...
... cause of her death , and upon the rack denies his guilt , upon which he is banished and subsequently is put to death by a relative of Disdemona . One sees out of this single comparison , what a gulf even here separates the novel from ...
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... cause of regret , than if the poet had not written Measure for Measure on account of its painful plot . The question therefore is only , whether the poet has done all that he could , having once undertaken the theme , to avoid what is ...
... cause of regret , than if the poet had not written Measure for Measure on account of its painful plot . The question therefore is only , whether the poet has done all that he could , having once undertaken the theme , to avoid what is ...
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... cause the flood - gates of restrained passion gave way , then his con- dition became " perplexed in the extreme " , stubborn ob- stinacy seized him , and the out - burst of frightful emotions betrayed the inherent power of his nature ...
... cause the flood - gates of restrained passion gave way , then his con- dition became " perplexed in the extreme " , stubborn ob- stinacy seized him , and the out - burst of frightful emotions betrayed the inherent power of his nature ...
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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.