The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama IllustratedT. Cadell, 1775 - 528 pages |
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... perfons , to whom they depute the fe- veral offices of State , as ministers , in the literal sense of the word , only , not in the political one . B 3 When When Profpero defcribes the hazards and difficul- ties of his THE 5 TEMPEST .
... perfons , to whom they depute the fe- veral offices of State , as ministers , in the literal sense of the word , only , not in the political one . B 3 When When Profpero defcribes the hazards and difficul- ties of his THE 5 TEMPEST .
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... sense , and can be over- reached by folly only ; as here no danger is appre- hended to put a man on his guard , the fair one's wiles feeming to be all nature , naïveté , and charm- ing fimplicity ; and ' tis natural to humour those ...
... sense , and can be over- reached by folly only ; as here no danger is appre- hended to put a man on his guard , the fair one's wiles feeming to be all nature , naïveté , and charm- ing fimplicity ; and ' tis natural to humour those ...
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... sense is meet or amiable . A woman moved is like a fountain troubled , Muddy , ill - feeming , thick , bereft of beauty ; And while it is fo , none fo dry or thirsty Will deign to fip , or touch one drop of it . Thy husband is thy lord ...
... sense is meet or amiable . A woman moved is like a fountain troubled , Muddy , ill - feeming , thick , bereft of beauty ; And while it is fo , none fo dry or thirsty Will deign to fip , or touch one drop of it . Thy husband is thy lord ...
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... sense peculiar to himself , for fudden , hafty , and rafb - In the Midfummer Night's Dream , he applies it to lightning . Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth , makes makes Oedipus ...
... sense peculiar to himself , for fudden , hafty , and rafb - In the Midfummer Night's Dream , he applies it to lightning . Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth , makes makes Oedipus ...
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... sense of anticipated good , by giving us enjoy- ment before poffeffion ; hope , the enhancer of ex- pected blifs , would be loft in affurance ; and that dear cordial of defpair be then struck off from the materia medica of affliction ...
... sense of anticipated good , by giving us enjoy- ment before poffeffion ; hope , the enhancer of ex- pected blifs , would be loft in affurance ; and that dear cordial of defpair be then struck off from the materia medica of affliction ...
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Page 153 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 85 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 44 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 292 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 183 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 457 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Page 399 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 465 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 44 - ... palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 40 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.