The Dramatic Works of ShakespeareErnst Fleischer, 1826 - 830 pages |
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Page 34
... leave a square area of fifty - five on every side . But as the stage would necessarily occupy one side of the square , and the depth of the stage was to be exactly half of the remaining area , nothing like the area spoken of could be ...
... leave a square area of fifty - five on every side . But as the stage would necessarily occupy one side of the square , and the depth of the stage was to be exactly half of the remaining area , nothing like the area spoken of could be ...
Page 35
... leave no doubt that As You Like It was one of the plays seen , and Adam the character represented by Shakspeare . Now for Malone's remarks . " Mr. Oldys seems to have studied the art of ' marring a plain tale in the telling of it ...
... leave no doubt that As You Like It was one of the plays seen , and Adam the character represented by Shakspeare . Now for Malone's remarks . " Mr. Oldys seems to have studied the art of ' marring a plain tale in the telling of it ...
Page 37
... leave it to your honourable Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks : survey , and your honour to your heart's content ; Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs , which I wish may always answer your own wish , To fan and blow ...
... leave it to your honourable Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks : survey , and your honour to your heart's content ; Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs , which I wish may always answer your own wish , To fan and blow ...
Page 40
... leave this idle theme , this bootless chat ; Remove your siege from my unyielding heart , To love's alarms it will not ope the gate . Dismiss your vows , your feign'd tears , your flattery ; For where the heart is hard , they make no ...
... leave this idle theme , this bootless chat ; Remove your siege from my unyielding heart , To love's alarms it will not ope the gate . Dismiss your vows , your feign'd tears , your flattery ; For where the heart is hard , they make no ...
Page 41
... leave exceeds commission . Affection faints not , like a pale - faced coward , But then wooes best , when most his choice is froward . When he did frown , O had she then gave over , Such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd : Foul ...
... leave exceeds commission . Affection faints not , like a pale - faced coward , But then wooes best , when most his choice is froward . When he did frown , O had she then gave over , Such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd : Foul ...
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Adonis alld allf anciently anglos assonate beauty Ben Jonson bHƒ breath called cheeks Collatine colour corrupted dead death dost doth Douce's Ill dress Dufresne engl eyes face fair false fear folio fool foul germ Gifford's Ben Jons Gifford's Ben Jonson give gleek goth grief hand hast hath heart hebr Hence honour Horne Tooke Div horse icel ital John Shakspeare kind kiss lips live look love's lowsax Lucrece Malone meaning metaphorically middlelat Nares night oldgerm ornament perhaps person play poet praise quoth seems sense Shakspeare's shame sorrow stage Steevens Stratford sweet Tarquin tears theatre thee thine thing Thomas Lucy thou art tongue TɅn Voss weep whence word
Popular passages
Page 72 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring ; And for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough* your worth to sing...
Page 67 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 63 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Page 74 - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad ; Mad in pursuit and in possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips...
Page 66 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain* jewels in the carcanet.
Page 62 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard ; Then of thy beauty do I question make, ' for store, ie to be preserved for use.
Page 66 - By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous...
Page 66 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 81 - Simple were so well compounded That it cried how true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.
Page 71 - Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute: Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.