William Shakespeare: A Critical StudyW. Heinemann, 1898 |
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... possessing such extraordinary insight into English literature as is revealed in these two volumes . Indeed , it is impossible to realise that the author is a foreigner as one wanders with him through the obscure byways of Elizabethan ...
... possessing such extraordinary insight into English literature as is revealed in these two volumes . Indeed , it is impossible to realise that the author is a foreigner as one wanders with him through the obscure byways of Elizabethan ...
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... possessed a pleasant peal of bells , there was a set of frescoes -probably the first and for long the only paintings known to Shakespeare . For the rest , Stratford - on - Avon was an insanitary place of residence . There was no sort of ...
... possessed a pleasant peal of bells , there was a set of frescoes -probably the first and for long the only paintings known to Shakespeare . For the rest , Stratford - on - Avon was an insanitary place of residence . There was no sort of ...
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... possessed . The eating utensils were of no value : wooden spoons and wooden platters . Yet the home of Shakespeare's mother was , according to the standard of that day , distinctly well - to - do . His marriage enabled John Shakespeare ...
... possessed . The eating utensils were of no value : wooden spoons and wooden platters . Yet the home of Shakespeare's mother was , according to the standard of that day , distinctly well - to - do . His marriage enabled John Shakespeare ...
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... possessed a near and influential kinsman in 1 We find reminiscences of these scenes in Hamlet's expression ; " He out - herods Herod , " and in the comparison of a flea on Bardolph's nose to a black soul burning in hell - fire ...
... possessed a near and influential kinsman in 1 We find reminiscences of these scenes in Hamlet's expression ; " He out - herods Herod , " and in the comparison of a flea on Bardolph's nose to a black soul burning in hell - fire ...
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... possessed the widest humanistic culture , had studied Aristotle and Plato no less than geometry and astronomy , had travelled and seen the world , had read and thought and written , and was not only a scholar but a soldier to boot . As ...
... possessed the widest humanistic culture , had studied Aristotle and Plato no less than geometry and astronomy , had travelled and seen the world , had read and thought and written , and was not only a scholar but a soldier to boot . As ...
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Page 640 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, over that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : This is an art Which docs mend nature, — change it rather : but The art itself is nature.
Page 322 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 187 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife ' Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Page 392 - LAERTES'S head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 641 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
Page 349 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Page 189 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 38 - To painful labour, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience;— Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 425 - This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BANQUO. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here.
Page 528 - Take but degree away, untune that string. And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.