The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 9Henry G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... Clarence , which is represented previously in the first scene , did not take place till 1477-8 . In speaking of this play , Dr. Johnson remarks ; This is one of the most celebrated of our author's performances , yet I know not whether ...
... Clarence , which is represented previously in the first scene , did not take place till 1477-8 . In speaking of this play , Dr. Johnson remarks ; This is one of the most celebrated of our author's performances , yet I know not whether ...
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... Clarence , who is privately assassinated in prison by his orders . Edward shortly after expires , leaving Richard protector of the realm , who immediately withdraws the two young princes from the superintendence of their maternal ...
... Clarence , who is privately assassinated in prison by his orders . Edward shortly after expires , leaving Richard protector of the realm , who immediately withdraws the two young princes from the superintendence of their maternal ...
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... Clarence , RICHARD , duke of Gloster , afterwards King Richard III . A young Son of Clarence . sons to the king . brothers to the king . HENRY , earl of Richmond , afterwards King Henry VII . CARDINAL BOURCHIER , archbishop of ...
... Clarence , RICHARD , duke of Gloster , afterwards King Richard III . A young Son of Clarence . sons to the king . brothers to the king . HENRY , earl of Richmond , afterwards King Henry VII . CARDINAL BOURCHIER , archbishop of ...
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... Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other ; And , if king Edward be as true and just , As I am subtle , false , and treacherous , This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up , ' ' i . e . Nature that puts together ...
... Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other ; And , if king Edward be as true and just , As I am subtle , false , and treacherous , This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up , ' ' i . e . Nature that puts together ...
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... Clarence comes . Enter CLARENCE guarded , and BRAKENBURY . Brother , good day . What means this armed guard , That waits upon your grace ? Cla . His majesty , Tendering my person's safety , hath appointed This conduct to convey me to ...
... Clarence comes . Enter CLARENCE guarded , and BRAKENBURY . Brother , good day . What means this armed guard , That waits upon your grace ? Cla . His majesty , Tendering my person's safety , hath appointed This conduct to convey me to ...
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Baynard's castle bear bless blood brother Buck CARDINAL WOLSEY Cates Catesby Cham Clarence conscience Cran Cranmer Crom Cromwell curse daughter dead death Dorset doth Duch duke of Buckingham duke of Norfolk EARL OF SURREY Edward Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father fear florish friends gentle gentlemen give Glos Gloster God's grace gracious Grey happy hath hear heart heaven highness holy honor house of Lancaster Kath Katharine KING HENRY KING RICHARD king's lady live look lord cardinal LORD CHAMBERLAIN lord Hastings madam mayor mother never noble peace pity poor pray prince queen Ratcliff Rich Richm Richmond royal SCENE SHAK SIR THOMAS LOVELL sleep sorrow soul speak Stan Stanley sweet tell thank thee There's thou tongue Tower uncle unto weep wife William Brandon Wolsey York
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Page 272 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 305 - In her days every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours...
Page 237 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 41 - And cited up a thousand heavy times, During the wars of York and Lancaster, That had befallen us. As we paced along Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, Methought that Gloster stumbled ; and, in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard, Into the tumbling billows of the main...
Page 261 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 8 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
Page 260 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening — nips his root, And then he falls as I do.
Page 272 - Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God Kath.
Page 173 - I come no more to make you laugh : things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may believe, May here find truth too.
Page 8 - To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass...