Cymbeline. The winter's taleHarper & brothers, 1884 |
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... honour and happiness , and maintains her reputation of virtue to the end of her life . These are the materials from which Shakspeare has drawn the dramatic situation of Imogen . He has also endowed her with several of the qualities ...
... honour and happiness , and maintains her reputation of virtue to the end of her life . These are the materials from which Shakspeare has drawn the dramatic situation of Imogen . He has also endowed her with several of the qualities ...
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... honour and truth . In short , he gives every proof of being noble and magnani- mous to the core . Is it then reconcilable with rational prob- ability that a man so endowed should so damn himself as , with the same ink , and the self ...
... honour and truth . In short , he gives every proof of being noble and magnani- mous to the core . Is it then reconcilable with rational prob- ability that a man so endowed should so damn himself as , with the same ink , and the self ...
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... honour to the grave of Euriphile , the wife of Belarius , and their supposed mother . Their primitive and rational piety when entering upon their morn- ing labours , " Hail , Heaven ! " No one better than Shake- speare knew how to ...
... honour to the grave of Euriphile , the wife of Belarius , and their supposed mother . Their primitive and rational piety when entering upon their morn- ing labours , " Hail , Heaven ! " No one better than Shake- speare knew how to ...
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... honour ; having already put the axiom into the mouth of Imogen , " The breach of custom is the breach of all ; " and so here one of the brothers , when they are proceeding to lay the body in the earth , objects : " Nay , Cadwal , we ...
... honour ; having already put the axiom into the mouth of Imogen , " The breach of custom is the breach of all ; " and so here one of the brothers , when they are proceeding to lay the body in the earth , objects : " Nay , Cadwal , we ...
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... honour Against the Romans with Cassibelan , But had his titles by Tenantius , whom He serv'd with glory and admir'd success , So gain'd the sur - addition Leonatus ; And had , besides this gentleman in question , Two other sons , who in ...
... honour Against the Romans with Cassibelan , But had his titles by Tenantius , whom He serv'd with glory and admir'd success , So gain'd the sur - addition Leonatus ; And had , besides this gentleman in question , Two other sons , who in ...
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1st folio Antigonus Arviragus Autolycus beauty Belarius beseech better Bohemia Britain Briton brother Cæsar Camillo Capell changed character Clarke Cleomenes Cloten Clown Coll conjectured court Cymb Cymbeline daughter dead death doth ellipsis Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Florizel flowers folios Gaoler gentle Gentleman give gods grace Guiderius Halliwell Hanmer hast hath heart heavens Hermione honour husband Iachimo Imogen Johnson Julius Cæsar king lady Lear Leonatus Leontes look lord Lucius Macb madam Malone Mamillius master means mistress nature noble Noble Kinsmen noun Othello passage Paulina Perdita Philario Pisanio play poet Polixenes Pope Posthumus pray prince prisoner prithee queen reads remarks Rich Roman SCENE Schmidt sense servant Shakespeare Shepherd Sicilia Sonn speak sweet Temp tender thee Theo thing thou art thought true verb Warb wife Winter's Tale woman word youth
Popular passages
Page 100 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 101 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one ! O, these I lack.
Page 71 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Page 208 - The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gathered flowers To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Page 20 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 187 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 173 - Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Page 36 - Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument !) bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse.
Page 102 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 100 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.