The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 18Jefferson Press, 1908 |
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... Italian coin worth about a shilling , with " solidus , " a gold coin of the later Roman empire worth about twelve shillings . 45-46 the world . . . that lived ] the world should undergo so much change and we who were living in the old ...
... Italian coin worth about a shilling , with " solidus , " a gold coin of the later Roman empire worth about twelve shillings . 45-46 the world . . . that lived ] the world should undergo so much change and we who were living in the old ...
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... Italy and France assimilated the story many years before it reached literary England . Early experiments in the Renaissance drama of both Italy and France anticipated Shakespeare in dramatising the historic tragedy of " Antony [ xv ] ...
... Italy and France assimilated the story many years before it reached literary England . Early experiments in the Renaissance drama of both Italy and France anticipated Shakespeare in dramatising the historic tragedy of " Antony [ xv ] ...
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... Italian pen about 1540. The author , Giraldi Cinthio of Ferrara , is best known by that collection of prose tales " Hecatommithi , " which supplied Shakespeare with the plots of " Othello " and " Measure for Measure . " But in his own ...
... Italian pen about 1540. The author , Giraldi Cinthio of Ferrara , is best known by that collection of prose tales " Hecatommithi , " which supplied Shakespeare with the plots of " Othello " and " Measure for Measure . " But in his own ...
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... Italy , France doubtless derived the impulse to deal dramatically with Cleopatra's fate . No less than three tragedies concerning her were produced in France in the second half of the sixteenth century . All are on Giraldi's classical ...
... Italy , France doubtless derived the impulse to deal dramatically with Cleopatra's fate . No less than three tragedies concerning her were produced in France in the second half of the sixteenth century . All are on Giraldi's classical ...
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... Italians , French- men , and Englishmen anticipated Shakespeare in discovering the adaptability of Cleopatra's story to purposes of high tragedy . In his choice of the topic , he was a conscious imitator . The circumstance offers one ...
... Italians , French- men , and Englishmen anticipated Shakespeare in discovering the adaptability of Cleopatra's story to purposes of high tragedy . In his choice of the topic , he was a conscious imitator . The circumstance offers one ...
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Page 183 - If she first meet the curled Antony, He'll make demand of her ; and spend that kiss Which is my heaven to have. — Come, thou mortal wretch, [ To an asp, which she applies to her breast. With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak ! That I might hear thee call great Caesar, Ass Unpolicied!
Page xxiii - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 182 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip : — Yare, yare, good Iras ; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony call ; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act...
Page 50 - ... silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 148 - That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page xl - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Page 159 - Noblest of men, woo't die? Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty? — O, see, my women, [ ANTONY dies. The crown o
Page 81 - Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Page 49 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 28 - Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink The stale of horses and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at : thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. On the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on...