Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... noble and famous naval hero . Before the appointed nuptials , the brother perished at sea with his vessel and with the dowry of his sister ; and the bridegroom was cruel and hard - hearted enough to forsake her who could now advance him ...
... noble and famous naval hero . Before the appointed nuptials , the brother perished at sea with his vessel and with the dowry of his sister ; and the bridegroom was cruel and hard - hearted enough to forsake her who could now advance him ...
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... government . The young deputy orders now all disorderly houses in the suburbs to be " plucked down " ; the prisons are filled with offensive criminals of every kind ; even a young noble we see MEASURE FOR MEASURE . 23.
... government . The young deputy orders now all disorderly houses in the suburbs to be " plucked down " ; the prisons are filled with offensive criminals of every kind ; even a young noble we see MEASURE FOR MEASURE . 23.
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Georg Gottfried Gervinus. of every kind ; even a young noble we see publicly led to prison to the scandal of the town for the sake of a single offence ; an example is to be made of him which will strike the eyes of all ... noble we see ...
Georg Gottfried Gervinus. of every kind ; even a young noble we see publicly led to prison to the scandal of the town for the sake of a single offence ; an example is to be made of him which will strike the eyes of all ... noble we see ...
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... noble heart . At the first sound of this touching tone struck from the soul of the great and severe woman , Angelo feels himself moved , and as if in foreboding of the power which this being might obtain over him , he prays her to ...
... noble heart . At the first sound of this touching tone struck from the soul of the great and severe woman , Angelo feels himself moved , and as if in foreboding of the power which this being might obtain over him , he prays her to ...
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... noble for the weak errors of a vain self - love , who wavers negatively between the two , who aspires after honour , who would be a master in his political vocation , a saint in his moral life , but who in the hour of temptation is ...
... noble for the weak errors of a vain self - love , who wavers negatively between the two , who aspires after honour , who would be a master in his political vocation , a saint in his moral life , but who in the hour of temptation is ...
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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.