The SonnetsNew American Library, 1988 - 246 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... flower and the condition for fullness of life ; you cannot know beforehand what life will bring you if you open yourself to it , and certainly the flower does not ; it is because they are unnatural and unlike flowers that the cold ...
... flower and the condition for fullness of life ; you cannot know beforehand what life will bring you if you open yourself to it , and certainly the flower does not ; it is because they are unnatural and unlike flowers that the cold ...
Page 203
... flower about a human being is enough to put it at us that the flower will die by the end of summer , that the man's life is not much longer , and that the pleasures of the creature therefore cannot be despised for what they are . Sweet ...
... flower about a human being is enough to put it at us that the flower will die by the end of summer , that the man's life is not much longer , and that the pleasures of the creature therefore cannot be despised for what they are . Sweet ...
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... flower names of the Bible the same rich clash of suggestion - an implied mutual com- parison that elevates both parties - as he makes here be- tween the garden flower and the wild flower . The first sense ( the rose ) gives the root ...
... flower names of the Bible the same rich clash of suggestion - an implied mutual com- parison that elevates both parties - as he makes here be- tween the garden flower and the wild flower . The first sense ( the rose ) gives the root ...
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