Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... keep to lines of ten syllables with similar terminations . He no sooner acknowledges the merits of his author in one ... keeping up a perpetual alterna- tion of perfections and absurdities . We do not otherwise know how to account for ...
... keep to lines of ten syllables with similar terminations . He no sooner acknowledges the merits of his author in one ... keeping up a perpetual alterna- tion of perfections and absurdities . We do not otherwise know how to account for ...
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... prominence and theatrical display in Shakspeare's female characters from the circumstance , that wo- men in those days were not allowed to play the parts of women , which made it necessary to keep these a good deal 2 CYMBELINE . MACBETH.
... prominence and theatrical display in Shakspeare's female characters from the circumstance , that wo- men in those days were not allowed to play the parts of women , which made it necessary to keep these a good deal 2 CYMBELINE . MACBETH.
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William Hazlitt. which made it necessary to keep these a good deal in the back- ground . Does not this state of manners itself , which prevented their exhibiting themselves in public , and confined them to the relations and charities of ...
William Hazlitt. which made it necessary to keep these a good deal in the back- ground . Does not this state of manners itself , which prevented their exhibiting themselves in public , and confined them to the relations and charities of ...
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... keeping in each separate character ; but in the casting of the different parts , and their relation to one another , there is an affinity and harmony , like what we may observe in the gradations of color in a picture . The striking and ...
... keeping in each separate character ; but in the casting of the different parts , and their relation to one another , there is an affinity and harmony , like what we may observe in the gradations of color in a picture . The striking and ...
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... keeps the fate of the young princes so long a secret , in resentment for the ungrateful return to his former ... keeping with the spirit of adventure and uncertainty in the rest of the story , and with the scenes in which they are ...
... keeps the fate of the young princes so long a secret , in resentment for the ungrateful return to his former ... keeping with the spirit of adventure and uncertainty in the rest of the story , and with the scenes in which they are ...
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Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 104 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 84 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page xx - 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...
Page 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 101 - Ah ! dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour ? For fear of that I...