The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 20Harper, 1908 |
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... Sonnets " ; for , while these unmistakably manifest both striking dramatic power and a copious rhetoric , the most majestic and terrible of his Tragedies exhibit , in the construction and music of their blank verse , the lyrical note ...
... Sonnets " ; for , while these unmistakably manifest both striking dramatic power and a copious rhetoric , the most majestic and terrible of his Tragedies exhibit , in the construction and music of their blank verse , the lyrical note ...
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... Sonnets " represent not what Shakespeare himself per- sonally felt at the time of writing them , but rather what other people would feel in the circumstances supposed , I think no one can well doubt after reading the [ xiii ] INTRODUCTION.
... Sonnets " represent not what Shakespeare himself per- sonally felt at the time of writing them , but rather what other people would feel in the circumstances supposed , I think no one can well doubt after reading the [ xiii ] INTRODUCTION.
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... Sonnets " speculations and even theories that lack all foundation , when once the true and full nature of his genius is apprehended . Similarly , in " Venus and Adonis " and " The Rape of Lucrece , " he manifests that ample command of ...
... Sonnets " speculations and even theories that lack all foundation , when once the true and full nature of his genius is apprehended . Similarly , in " Venus and Adonis " and " The Rape of Lucrece , " he manifests that ample command of ...
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... viz . , Titus Andronicus , and the three parts of Henry VI . eare ] plough ; cf. Sonnet iii , 5 : " unear❜d . " A reference to the Earl of Southampton's youthful promise . E VENUS AND ADONIS VEN AS THE SUN WITH purple.
... viz . , Titus Andronicus , and the three parts of Henry VI . eare ] plough ; cf. Sonnet iii , 5 : " unear❜d . " A reference to the Earl of Southampton's youthful promise . E VENUS AND ADONIS VEN AS THE SUN WITH purple.
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... Sonnet xxxiii , 14 : ' Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth . " 99 11 Nature . . . at strife ] This comparison of art and nature is a con- ceit characteristic of the poetry of all countries in the sixteenth century ...
... Sonnet xxxiii , 14 : ' Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth . " 99 11 Nature . . . at strife ] This comparison of art and nature is a con- ceit characteristic of the poetry of all countries in the sixteenth century ...
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