The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925 |
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Page xxi
... soul and intellect that we find in Hamlet , nor the gigantic passions and simplicities of Othello or King Lear , still is it true that he is more of their fellowship than he is akin to King John or Richard III . As in the central ...
... soul and intellect that we find in Hamlet , nor the gigantic passions and simplicities of Othello or King Lear , still is it true that he is more of their fellowship than he is akin to King John or Richard III . As in the central ...
Page xxii
... soul struggling to be free , although the strug of Richard differs in more ways than one from that Danish Prince and the British King . It is to these differ that we must look for the explanation of the dislike Richard II . has inspired ...
... soul struggling to be free , although the strug of Richard differs in more ways than one from that Danish Prince and the British King . It is to these differ that we must look for the explanation of the dislike Richard II . has inspired ...
Page xxvii
... soul - tragedy , is now over . Richard has been tried in the crucible , and where gold should have emerged we find but flashy dross . From this point to the end of the play we seem to be concerned with the good qualities of Richard's ...
... soul - tragedy , is now over . Richard has been tried in the crucible , and where gold should have emerged we find but flashy dross . From this point to the end of the play we seem to be concerned with the good qualities of Richard's ...
Page xxxiv
... Soul's Tragedy the other hand the horrible " strength " of Edward's scene is probably a greater imaginative achievement tha of Richard . Critical estimates of this play have varied between extremes . Coleridge had " no hesitation in ...
... Soul's Tragedy the other hand the horrible " strength " of Edward's scene is probably a greater imaginative achievement tha of Richard . Critical estimates of this play have varied between extremes . Coleridge had " no hesitation in ...
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... soul answer it in heaven . Thou art a traitor and a miscreant , Too good to be so , and too bad to live , Since the more fair and crystal is the sky , The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly . Once more , the more to aggravate the ...
... soul answer it in heaven . Thou art a traitor and a miscreant , Too good to be so , and too bad to live , Since the more fair and crystal is the sky , The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly . Once more , the more to aggravate the ...
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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.