Shakespeare's Scholar: Being Historical and Critical Studies of His Text, Characters, and Commentators, with an Examination of Mr. Collier's Folio of 1632D. Appleton, 1854 - 504 pages |
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Page vii
... written ; upon which you kindly , but I thought with some reason , remarked , that the motives and the circumstances which produced it would add materially to whatever intrinsic value it might pos- sess , and that a statement of these ...
... written ; upon which you kindly , but I thought with some reason , remarked , that the motives and the circumstances which produced it would add materially to whatever intrinsic value it might pos- sess , and that a statement of these ...
Page viii
... written or what he could have written , or to seek the interpretation of his thoughts from those who proclaim themselves his prophets , but to learn from him what he did write , and to study to understand that in the submissive yet ...
... written or what he could have written , or to seek the interpretation of his thoughts from those who proclaim themselves his prophets , but to learn from him what he did write , and to study to understand that in the submissive yet ...
Page ix
... written this book ; and I wrote it thus . Though never one of those who devote their social hours to trumpeting their admiration of him who wrote for all time , yet having been , as you have already seen , his devoted student at so ...
... written this book ; and I wrote it thus . Though never one of those who devote their social hours to trumpeting their admiration of him who wrote for all time , yet having been , as you have already seen , his devoted student at so ...
Page xiii
... written this book ; but because before I undertook the task I had studied Shakespeare himself with constant devotion during the whole of my thinking life , and had not discovered the need of any comments or explanations at all , except ...
... written this book ; but because before I undertook the task I had studied Shakespeare himself with constant devotion during the whole of my thinking life , and had not discovered the need of any comments or explanations at all , except ...
Page xiv
... written notes . These gradu- ally accumulated upon me , sometimes in the shape of mere memorandums , sometimes extending them- selves almost into short essays ; and they , with the exception of the pages devoted to the consideration of ...
... written notes . These gradu- ally accumulated upon me , sometimes in the shape of mere memorandums , sometimes extending them- selves almost into short essays ; and they , with the exception of the pages devoted to the consideration of ...
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Page 238 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 382 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 34 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 118 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 294 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 44 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 212 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 40 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 158 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 118 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint; our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drinK, we die.