The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925 |
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Page xi
... looks remarkably like evidence that Shakespeare was working over an older play as he did in the case of the contemporary King John . There are two passages in which Shakespeare was evidently not drawing from the Chronicles . The first ...
... looks remarkably like evidence that Shakespeare was working over an older play as he did in the case of the contemporary King John . There are two passages in which Shakespeare was evidently not drawing from the Chronicles . The first ...
Page xii
... looks like the work writer of our hypothetical Ur - Richard . The debt to any historical source other than Holins trivial , and on examination it may be seen that the s 1 Since the above was written Prof. Saintsbury in the Cambridge H ...
... looks like the work writer of our hypothetical Ur - Richard . The debt to any historical source other than Holins trivial , and on examination it may be seen that the s 1 Since the above was written Prof. Saintsbury in the Cambridge H ...
Page xviii
... look upon them as the misgovernment of R followed by a just punishment , or as a strife between th and sentimental King and the strong and practical E broke - have a dramatic unity in themselves which r superfluous anything beyond a ...
... look upon them as the misgovernment of R followed by a just punishment , or as a strife between th and sentimental King and the strong and practical E broke - have a dramatic unity in themselves which r superfluous anything beyond a ...
Page xxii
... look for the explanation of the dislike Richard II . has inspired in so many critics ; and the exp tion is this . Hamlet , Macbeth , Othello , King Lear ha contend against forces ( whether outward circumstance or own passions ) far ...
... look for the explanation of the dislike Richard II . has inspired in so many critics ; and the exp tion is this . Hamlet , Macbeth , Othello , King Lear ha contend against forces ( whether outward circumstance or own passions ) far ...
Page xxiv
... look dignified during the process . looks on at himself and sees the " frozen admonition ” n pale his cheek , " chasing the royal blood With fury from native residence . " Gaunt's impeachment of his conduct be justified or not . That is ...
... look dignified during the process . looks on at himself and sees the " frozen admonition ” n pale his cheek , " chasing the royal blood With fury from native residence . " Gaunt's impeachment of his conduct be justified or not . That is ...
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Page 31 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth...
Page 25 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 69 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 93 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ! no man cried, God save him...
Page 93 - Richard : no man cried, God save him ! No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, — That, had not God, for some strong...
Page 79 - Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens : And, toil'd with works of war, retired himself To Italy ; and there at Venice, gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 30 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 92 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once, — " Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke...
Page 20 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Page 50 - I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends ; And, as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense: My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.