The Sonnets of William Shakspere: Rearranged and Divided Into Four Parts ; with an Introduction and Explanatory NotesJohn Russell Smith, 1859 - 120 pages |
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... nature does the poet paint , mingling the real and ideal , and the ideal and real , as only Shakspere can , that some writers have considered it , as merely the description of a beautiful youth , an Adonis , a British cadet hog- hunting ...
... nature does the poet paint , mingling the real and ideal , and the ideal and real , as only Shakspere can , that some writers have considered it , as merely the description of a beautiful youth , an Adonis , a British cadet hog- hunting ...
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... natural and full of meaning , if we view them as having a reference to previous sonnets , describing the knightly virtues and accomplishments of his friend . Amongst all the sonnets there is not one that can be interposed between the ...
... natural and full of meaning , if we view them as having a reference to previous sonnets , describing the knightly virtues and accomplishments of his friend . Amongst all the sonnets there is not one that can be interposed between the ...
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... Nature self had made To mock herself , and Truth to imitate , With kindly counter , under mimic shade , Our pleasant Willy , ah ! is dead of late . " Here ends the First Part of the Sonnets , a Poem , essentially a work of art . The ...
... Nature self had made To mock herself , and Truth to imitate , With kindly counter , under mimic shade , Our pleasant Willy , ah ! is dead of late . " Here ends the First Part of the Sonnets , a Poem , essentially a work of art . The ...
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... Nature's own hand written , Antony and Cleopatra , Enobarbus and Octavia , and Cæsar , the impersonated moral force , appear upon the stage , 1 the conviction forces itself on our minds , that though for a time , Shakspere fell a victim ...
... Nature's own hand written , Antony and Cleopatra , Enobarbus and Octavia , and Cæsar , the impersonated moral force , appear upon the stage , 1 the conviction forces itself on our minds , that though for a time , Shakspere fell a victim ...
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... Nature inserted the spleen into our left side merely to fill up a vacuum ; but , in reality , she put it there for a specific purpose of her own , and not merely to stop up a hole and give us poor mortals the ague and spleen ; so in ...
... Nature inserted the spleen into our left side merely to fill up a vacuum ; but , in reality , she put it there for a specific purpose of her own , and not merely to stop up a hole and give us poor mortals the ague and spleen ; so in ...
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Antony Antony and Cleopatra bear beauteous beauty's behold bright Cæsar canst dead dear death deeds delight disgrace dost thou Earl Earl of Pembroke Enobarbus epistle eye doth face false fear flowers gainst gentle give grace hand happy hate hath heaven Julius Cæsar Lepidus live look love thee love's Love's fire Mark Antony Marlowe Menas Muse night painted Passionate Pilgrim pity Plutarch poem poet poetical Pompey poor praise pride proud prove rhyme rich rose Shakspere Shakspere's shalt shame sight sinful earth sonnets soul Southampton speak spirit stanza steal summer's swear tell thine eyes things Thomas Thorpe thou art thou dost thou hast thou lov'st thou may'st thou seest thou wilt thought thy beauty thy fair thy heart thy love thy sweet thyself Time's tongue true mind truth Venus and Adonis verse Whilst young youth
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Page 61 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 56 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 54 - 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 expressed Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 119 - d no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad...
Page 82 - They that have power to hurt and will do none,' That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
Page 41 - If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering ; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing : Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee,
Page 58 - 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 86 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 89 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 37 - FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory...