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... feel any certainty , and that is that neither represents in all respects the play as it first came from Shakespeare's hands . Independent MS . origin for both Quarto and Folio there undoubtedly was , but , curiously enough , the printed ...
... feel any certainty , and that is that neither represents in all respects the play as it first came from Shakespeare's hands . Independent MS . origin for both Quarto and Folio there undoubtedly was , but , curiously enough , the printed ...
Page lx
... feel what wretches feel , That thou may'st shake the superflux to them , And show the heavens more just- a fellow - feeling giving him , for the first time , the power of fully sympathising with the woes of the poorest of his former ...
... feel what wretches feel , That thou may'st shake the superflux to them , And show the heavens more just- a fellow - feeling giving him , for the first time , the power of fully sympathising with the woes of the poorest of his former ...
Page lxi
... feeling a deep grudge , a " sæva indignatio , " against mankind on account of some wrongs which he fancied he had received at its hands , he deliberately selected a subject fraught with sadness , and which exhibited mankind at its very ...
... feeling a deep grudge , a " sæva indignatio , " against mankind on account of some wrongs which he fancied he had received at its hands , he deliberately selected a subject fraught with sadness , and which exhibited mankind at its very ...
Page lxii
... feel sure it is impossible for us to go . this most sad play of ours is there " And even through not a fresh breath blowing ? We are not face to face with the work of a Tourneur , a Webster , or a Ford . There is " a wind on the heath ...
... feel sure it is impossible for us to go . this most sad play of ours is there " And even through not a fresh breath blowing ? We are not face to face with the work of a Tourneur , a Webster , or a Ford . There is " a wind on the heath ...
Page lxiii
... It is a play which , great as it is , presents itself plainly before the gaze of men , like a vast 1 Edward Dowden , Shakspere : His Mind and Art , 1875 . mountain or the wide sea , and one feels that INTRODUCTION lxiii.
... It is a play which , great as it is , presents itself plainly before the gaze of men , like a vast 1 Edward Dowden , Shakspere : His Mind and Art , 1875 . mountain or the wide sea , and one feels that INTRODUCTION lxiii.
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Page 61 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...
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Page 225 - We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage; When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with...
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