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William Shakespeare Sir Sidney Lee. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO PERICLES BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE TEXT OF THE PLAY PAGE ix 1 • INTRODUCTION T HE apocryphal works of Shake- speare are even.
William Shakespeare Sir Sidney Lee. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO PERICLES BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE TEXT OF THE PLAY PAGE ix 1 • INTRODUCTION T HE apocryphal works of Shake- speare are even.
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... plays , and only two , of which we may be as absolutely certain that Shakespeare wrote the nobler part as that Shakespeare did not write the whole . The one is taken from the " Knight's Tale , " of Chaucer , the other from an episode in ...
... plays , and only two , of which we may be as absolutely certain that Shakespeare wrote the nobler part as that Shakespeare did not write the whole . The one is taken from the " Knight's Tale , " of Chaucer , the other from an episode in ...
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... plays the most childish tricks and accomplishes the most burlesque antics that can ever have enraptured an adult infant ... play . After he vanishes we are at home for good in the divine and human company of Shakespeare . When the storm ...
... plays the most childish tricks and accomplishes the most burlesque antics that can ever have enraptured an adult infant ... play . After he vanishes we are at home for good in the divine and human company of Shakespeare . When the storm ...
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... play which he cannot have taken as seriously as all readers may see that he must have taken such masterpieces of his own creation as those which he remoulded and re- wrote from end to end . The three succeeding scenes are perfect ...
... play which he cannot have taken as seriously as all readers may see that he must have taken such masterpieces of his own creation as those which he remoulded and re- wrote from end to end . The three succeeding scenes are perfect ...
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... plays was certainly not too prudish or squeamish to have written the certainly not more offensive passages which have offended modern readers in the apocryphal play of " Peri- cles . " And who else could have written them ? There is ...
... plays was certainly not too prudish or squeamish to have written the certainly not more offensive passages which have offended modern readers in the apocryphal play of " Peri- cles . " And who else could have written them ? There is ...
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Antiochus ARVIRAGUS BAWD BELARIUS BOULT Britain Britons Cæsar call'd Cerimon CLEON Cloten command Confessio Amantis court Cymbeline daughter dead death Dionyza doth emendation Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes father fear FISH Folio reading GENT gentlemen give gods Gower grace grief GUIDERIUS hath hear heart heaven Helicanus honour IACH Iachimo Imogen infra king knight lady Leonatus live look lord Lucius Lychorida Lysimachus madam Malone Marina master means mistress Mytilene ne'er never noble original reading PALACE Enter peace Pentapolis Pericles Pisanio play POST Posthumus pray prince of Tyre Prince Pericles prithee Quartos queen Re-enter Roman SCENE sense Shakespeare Simonides sorrow speak supra Tarsus tell THAI Thaisa THAL Thaliard thee there's thing thou art Thou hast thought thyself tongue Tyre unto villain What's Wilt word worth worthy princes
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Page 46 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 114 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 109 - I'll willingly to him : To gain his colour, 6 I'd let a parish of such Clotens blood, And praise myself for charity. [Exit. Bel. 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 enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 114 - ... 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 111 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir; Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness.
Page 139 - Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in' Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade. He shall be lord of lady Imogen, And happier much by his affliction made.