Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... Shakespeare celebrated these changes in his Macbeth ( 1605 ) , in which besides the skilful interweaving of the Stuarts and the patriotic salutation to the first king who carried " two - fold balls and treble sceptres " , a flattering ...
... Shakespeare celebrated these changes in his Macbeth ( 1605 ) , in which besides the skilful interweaving of the Stuarts and the patriotic salutation to the first king who carried " two - fold balls and treble sceptres " , a flattering ...
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... Shakespeare celebrates in Macbeth an ancient obligation of Scotland to England , who at that time freed the Scottish throne from the tyrant , and established the lawful king together with milder customs ; and this old debt Scotland now ...
... Shakespeare celebrates in Macbeth an ancient obligation of Scotland to England , who at that time freed the Scottish throne from the tyrant , and established the lawful king together with milder customs ; and this old debt Scotland now ...
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... Shakespeare was occupied with indescribable activity , and was seized with an overweening desire for satisfying his creative genius . The cheerfulness , the assurance , the copiousness , with which we saw him work at the close of the ...
... Shakespeare was occupied with indescribable activity , and was seized with an overweening desire for satisfying his creative genius . The cheerfulness , the assurance , the copiousness , with which we saw him work at the close of the ...
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... Shakespeare's esteem , if not in closer relation to him . It is possible enough , that Julius Cæsar was written just about 1601 or 1602 , not without reference to these conspirators and independent spirits . We have seen from the ...
... Shakespeare's esteem , if not in closer relation to him . It is possible enough , that Julius Cæsar was written just about 1601 or 1602 , not without reference to these conspirators and independent spirits . We have seen from the ...
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... Shakespeare has delineated with such objective acuteness this weary depression and unsatisfied frame of mind , this too - close search into the gloomy side of life , and he stands himself in such clear and distinct light above this ...
... Shakespeare has delineated with such objective acuteness this weary depression and unsatisfied frame of mind , this too - close search into the gloomy side of life , and he stands himself in such clear and distinct light above this ...
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Page 53 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 621 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 66 - 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 330 - 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 8 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 297 - 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 136 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 335 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
Page 228 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Page 285 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.