The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, 1849 - 345 pages |
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... virtues ; there were ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned . " But Shakspeare was not only an author but an actor . In this union of the two professions he was not singular ; his friend Ben Jonson resembled him in this ...
... virtues ; there were ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned . " But Shakspeare was not only an author but an actor . In this union of the two professions he was not singular ; his friend Ben Jonson resembled him in this ...
Page lvi
... virtues , we have already seen ; and that , in a religious point of view , he had a claim to the enjoyment , the numer- ous passages in his works , which breathe a spirit of pious gratitude and devotional rapture , will sufficiently ...
... virtues , we have already seen ; and that , in a religious point of view , he had a claim to the enjoyment , the numer- ous passages in his works , which breathe a spirit of pious gratitude and devotional rapture , will sufficiently ...
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... virtue , Contend for empire in thee ; and thy goodness Share with thy birthright ! Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power , than use ; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check ...
... virtue , Contend for empire in thee ; and thy goodness Share with thy birthright ! Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power , than use ; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check ...
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... virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind . THE REMEDY OF EVILS GENERALLY IN OURSELVES . Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only , doth backward pull Our slow ...
... virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind . THE REMEDY OF EVILS GENERALLY IN OURSELVES . Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only , doth backward pull Our slow ...
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... VIRTUE ONLY , NOT TO BIRTH . From lowest place when virtuous things proceed , The place is dignified by the doer's deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied honour : good alone Is good , without a name ...
... VIRTUE ONLY , NOT TO BIRTH . From lowest place when virtuous things proceed , The place is dignified by the doer's deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied honour : good alone Is good , without a name ...
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Agamemnon Ajax Antony art thou Banquo bear beauty Ben Jonson blood bosom breath Brutus Cassius Cesar cheek CORIOLANUS crown Cymbeline dead dear death deed Desdemona doth dream ears earth eyes fair father fear fire fool friends gentle Ghost give gods grief hand hath head hear heart heaven honour hour Iago Jonson king kiss Lady lips live look lord Lowsie Macb Macbeth Macd maid moon murder nature ne'er never night noble o'er passion Patroclus pity play poet poor prince queen Rape of Lucrece revenge Romeo Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's shame sleep smile soul speak spirit Stratford sweet tears tell theatre thee thine thing Thomas Lucy thou art thou hast thought Titus Andronicus tongue true Venus and Adonis vex'd virtue weep wife wind words wretch youth