Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... crime , which Claudio commits in Measure for Measure ; by the double promise of marriage and the release of her brother , he seduces the pleading sister ( Exitia ) into the same crime , for which he had sentenced her brother , and ...
... crime , which Claudio commits in Measure for Measure ; by the double promise of marriage and the release of her brother , he seduces the pleading sister ( Exitia ) into the same crime , for which he had sentenced her brother , and ...
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... crime ; these fruits of his kindness rouse him into seeking a remedy . But even while he now has recourse to severity , he allows the same two - sided consideration to rule , which is throughout peculiar to him : he reflects , that it ...
... crime ; these fruits of his kindness rouse him into seeking a remedy . But even while he now has recourse to severity , he allows the same two - sided consideration to rule , which is throughout peculiar to him : he reflects , that it ...
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... crime on his side , he hesitates not to call down upon himself punishment and blame , and proudly to answer : " " Tis one thing to be tempted , another thing to fall " . That this virtue and sobriety in such extreme youth is constrained ...
... crime on his side , he hesitates not to call down upon himself punishment and blame , and proudly to answer : " " Tis one thing to be tempted , another thing to fall " . That this virtue and sobriety in such extreme youth is constrained ...
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... crime which it concerned , was to be attained by this severity , seems indeed to be rendered very doubtful by the immediate results . The judges among high and low who know the nature of this sin and the nature of men , such as the ...
... crime which it concerned , was to be attained by this severity , seems indeed to be rendered very doubtful by the immediate results . The judges among high and low who know the nature of this sin and the nature of men , such as the ...
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... crime from a perfectly similar motive . For which , indeed , was the more guilty , the anticipation of matrimonial right on the part of the faithful Claudio , or Angelo's breach of faith and his dissolving a firmly con- tracted alliance ...
... crime from a perfectly similar motive . For which , indeed , was the more guilty , the anticipation of matrimonial right on the part of the faithful Claudio , or Angelo's breach of faith and his dissolving a firmly con- tracted alliance ...
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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.