Shakespeare's Tragedy of CymbelineHarper & brothers, 1881 - 231 pages |
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2d folio Arviragus Augustus Cæsar beauty Belarius better Britain Briton brother Cadwal Cæsar call'd Capell cave character Clarke Cloten Coll conjectured Cornelius court Cymbeline Cymbeline's dead death doth edition ellipsis elliptical construction Enter Exeunt Exit eyes false father favour fear Fidele flowers fool Gaoler gentle Gentleman give gods Guiderius Hanmer changed hast hath hear heart heaven's gate heavens honour husband Iachimo Imogen Johnson Julius Cæsar Jupiter king lady Lear Leonatus lord Lucius Macb madam Malone master means Milford-Haven mistress mother nature Nennius noble noun passage Philario Pisanio play poet Polydore Pope Posthumus pray prince prithee Queen reads remarks Rich Rolfe Rolfe's Roman Rome SCENE Schmidt sense Shakespeare shalt Sicilius Sonn speak Steevens sweet sword Temp tender thee Theo thing thou art true verb villain Warb word worthy prince youth
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Page 121 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak. The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 171 - If we should fail? Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep — Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him — his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only...
Page 192 - Princes grace, yet want her Peeres; To have thy asking, yet waite manie yeeres; To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires; To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne, To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne.
Page 36 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 117 - O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchaf'd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 94 - 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,3 Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 206 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 209 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 224 - This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life...