Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... 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 prologue to Henry V. , what a sympa- thizing delight Shakespeare ...
... 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 prologue to Henry V. , what a sympa- thizing delight Shakespeare ...
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... possible in one alone . In one of the sonnets the melancholy feature in Hamlet's cha- racter is so prefigured , that one is tempted to believe that the plan of this poem was projected by Shakespeare since the period in which " the world ...
... possible in one alone . In one of the sonnets the melancholy feature in Hamlet's cha- racter is so prefigured , that one is tempted to believe that the plan of this poem was projected by Shakespeare since the period in which " the world ...
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... possible from his knowledge of her , as an already dedicated nun , his designs were all the more criminal . But even without this , his connection with Mariana was naturally in his constant remembrance , he had to fear her protest ...
... possible from his knowledge of her , as an already dedicated nun , his designs were all the more criminal . But even without this , his connection with Mariana was naturally in his constant remembrance , he had to fear her protest ...
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... possible , thus giving opportunity for moral reformation . Like Escalus , he pursues sinners by habit and trade rather than the casual fallen one , the bawd and the seducer rather than the seduced ; thrice they warn even 40 THIRD PERIOD ...
... possible , thus giving opportunity for moral reformation . Like Escalus , he pursues sinners by habit and trade rather than the casual fallen one , the bawd and the seducer rather than the seduced ; thrice they warn even 40 THIRD PERIOD ...
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... possible have regard to the motives of the erring , and should certainly ( to continue the words of the apostle ) rest somewhat on " him that willeth and him that runneth " ( " an Jemandes Wollen oder Laufen " ) . Thus in Germany also ...
... possible have regard to the motives of the erring , and should certainly ( to continue the words of the apostle ) rest somewhat on " him that willeth and him that runneth " ( " an Jemandes Wollen oder Laufen " ) . Thus in Germany also ...
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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.