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Page ix
... for the date of Corio- lanus is not forthcoming , except that , as Malone was the first to perceive , the language of Menenius in relating the fable of the belly appears to be indebted to the version given ix INTRODUCTION.
... for the date of Corio- lanus is not forthcoming , except that , as Malone was the first to perceive , the language of Menenius in relating the fable of the belly appears to be indebted to the version given ix INTRODUCTION.
Page xiv
... Menenius in Act III . sc . i . His want of self - knowledge was is extreme . He is a man of action and no Hamlet to look inward , and his only soliloquy evades the question that must have agitated his mind . His pride , in Shakespeare ...
... Menenius in Act III . sc . i . His want of self - knowledge was is extreme . He is a man of action and no Hamlet to look inward , and his only soliloquy evades the question that must have agitated his mind . His pride , in Shakespeare ...
Page xvi
... , such as that of Menenius , " If he were putting to my house the brand That should consume it , " assume it as what is naturally to be expected . On the other hand , Aufidius ( Act IV . sc . vii . ) xvi INTRODUCTION.
... , such as that of Menenius , " If he were putting to my house the brand That should consume it , " assume it as what is naturally to be expected . On the other hand , Aufidius ( Act IV . sc . vii . ) xvi INTRODUCTION.
Page xvii
... Menenius , because they refused them at first , has no force . The first Volscian lord , in Act v . sc . V. , says : " making a treaty where There was a yielding . " There is nothing , at any rate , to show that Coriolanus would not ...
... Menenius , because they refused them at first , has no force . The first Volscian lord , in Act v . sc . V. , says : " making a treaty where There was a yielding . " There is nothing , at any rate , to show that Coriolanus would not ...
Page xix
... Menenius , who only addresses the least important of two bodies of citizens in Shakespeare . The second , omitted by Shakespeare , was brought about principally by the tribunes by means of false tales , and was augmented by the attempt ...
... Menenius , who only addresses the least important of two bodies of citizens in Shakespeare . The second , omitted by Shakespeare , was brought about principally by the tribunes by means of false tales , and was augmented by the attempt ...
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Page 144 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 144 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 11 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 107 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Page 199 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Page 15 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate ; and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye! With every minute you do change a mind, And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
Page 222 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. Boy ! Auf.
Page 198 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us." Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Page 140 - You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair! Have the power still To banish your defenders; till, at length, Your ignorance...