The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9Jefferson Press, 1907 |
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... spirit of the English drama first enters into some sort of ascertained connexion with it or with its ordinary vehicle , the English stage . For , whether or not he had a hand in " Titus Andronicus " —a question which the present is not ...
... spirit of the English drama first enters into some sort of ascertained connexion with it or with its ordinary vehicle , the English stage . For , whether or not he had a hand in " Titus Andronicus " —a question which the present is not ...
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... spirit ' robbd of her love , her kingdom and her child ; the current of her being changed ; the woman turned into a demon and a fury ; then , dethroned , uttering the dread curse of Fate and Vengeance on the crafty cynical Richard in ...
... spirit ' robbd of her love , her kingdom and her child ; the current of her being changed ; the woman turned into a demon and a fury ; then , dethroned , uttering the dread curse of Fate and Vengeance on the crafty cynical Richard in ...
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... spirit , a literary testament more concentrated in its malice than those of which Villon and Dunbar had furnished earlier examples , proceeded from a man of talent . But Greene's fate , like that of many men of talent without character ...
... spirit , a literary testament more concentrated in its malice than those of which Villon and Dunbar had furnished earlier examples , proceeded from a man of talent . But Greene's fate , like that of many men of talent without character ...
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... spirit carried her , is of course one that will never be solved . Humphrey of Gloucester was not shamed by the catas- trophe of his partner , or by his inability to hold out to her a helping hand , into withdrawal from public life . But ...
... spirit carried her , is of course one that will never be solved . Humphrey of Gloucester was not shamed by the catas- trophe of his partner , or by his inability to hold out to her a helping hand , into withdrawal from public life . But ...
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... spirit of the later Tudor age , when a strong govern- ment was strongest in the goodwill of the great body of a self - confident nation . But how deep the popular discon- tent had sunk in days of the greatest weakness of Henry VI's ...
... spirit of the later Tudor age , when a strong govern- ment was strongest in the goodwill of the great body of a self - confident nation . But how deep the popular discon- tent had sunk in days of the greatest weakness of Henry VI's ...
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Page 105 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 105 - CADE. I thank you, good people— there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
Page 18 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 3 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page xvi - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 45 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 30 Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.