Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... friends , princes , benefactors , and relations , to the highest pitch of vice , in the profligate alienation of children from their father , in the rebellion of kindred blood in the 4 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY .
... friends , princes , benefactors , and relations , to the highest pitch of vice , in the profligate alienation of children from their father , in the rebellion of kindred blood in the 4 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY .
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Georg Gottfried Gervinus. father , in the rebellion of kindred blood in the bosom of the family ; we find here also in Lear and Cymbeline the pure contrast of unshaken fidelity set ... father, in the rebellion of kindred blood in the ...
Georg Gottfried Gervinus. father , in the rebellion of kindred blood in the bosom of the family ; we find here also in Lear and Cymbeline the pure contrast of unshaken fidelity set ... father, in the rebellion of kindred blood in the ...
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... father , she indignantly rejects him , for she now regards his sin not as " accidental , but a trade " . However much this severity and this heroism may seem in its asceti- cism and sobriety similar to Angelo's pride of virtue and show ...
... father , she indignantly rejects him , for she now regards his sin not as " accidental , but a trade " . However much this severity and this heroism may seem in its asceti- cism and sobriety similar to Angelo's pride of virtue and show ...
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... reaction will be restraint : " As surfeit is the father of much fast , So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint " . As this doctrine of the harmful excess of all and 42 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY .
... reaction will be restraint : " As surfeit is the father of much fast , So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint " . As this doctrine of the harmful excess of all and 42 THIRD PERIOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC POETRY .
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... father should at least be heard . However independently the newly - founded family ought to enter upon life , universal experience tells us , that there is no security , when it has forcibly sundered itself from the elder families out ...
... father should at least be heard . However independently the newly - founded family ought to enter upon life , universal experience tells us , that there is no security , when it has forcibly sundered itself from the elder families out ...
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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.