Scenes from Old Playbooks: Arranged as an Introduction to ShakespearePercy Simpson Clarendon Press, 1906 - 248 pages |
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... mind what sort of a man you meant your hero to be ; then you would work out the story ( or plot , as we call it in a play ) so as to suit him . Out of all the things which he ever did you would pick only those which best showed what he ...
... mind what sort of a man you meant your hero to be ; then you would work out the story ( or plot , as we call it in a play ) so as to suit him . Out of all the things which he ever did you would pick only those which best showed what he ...
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... mind ; and it is just such touches as that little feather which make it real for us . A poet may invent as many of them as he likes so long as they fit the character . For the character is the main thing ; he must fix on that first ...
... mind ; and it is just such touches as that little feather which make it real for us . A poet may invent as many of them as he likes so long as they fit the character . For the character is the main thing ; he must fix on that first ...
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... mind The ambitious Mortimer would seek to curb , And that unnatural queen , false Isabel , That thus hath pent and mewed me in a prison ; For such outrageous passions cloy my soul , As , with the wings of rancour and disdain , Full ...
... mind The ambitious Mortimer would seek to curb , And that unnatural queen , false Isabel , That thus hath pent and mewed me in a prison ; For such outrageous passions cloy my soul , As , with the wings of rancour and disdain , Full ...
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... mind here murdered is . But what the heavens appoint , I must obey ! Here take my crown ; the life of Edward too ; 55 [ He takes off the crown . Two kings in England cannot reign at once . But stay awhile , let me be king till night ...
... mind here murdered is . But what the heavens appoint , I must obey ! Here take my crown ; the life of Edward too ; 55 [ He takes off the crown . Two kings in England cannot reign at once . But stay awhile , let me be king till night ...
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... mind's distempered , and my body's numbed , And whether I have limbs or no I know not . Oh , would my blood dropped out from every vein , As doth this water from my tattered robes ! Tell Isabel the Queen , I looked not thus When for her ...
... mind's distempered , and my body's numbed , And whether I have limbs or no I know not . Oh , would my blood dropped out from every vein , As doth this water from my tattered robes ! Tell Isabel the Queen , I looked not thus When for her ...
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Page 133 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 77 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition.
Page 135 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Page 121 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 131 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 139 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour?
Page 69 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Page 131 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious I slew him.
Page 132 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 61 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.