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... 84 87 87 89 90 92 92 94 96 97 100 Julius C¿sar . 102 Antony and Cleopatra .. • 105 Timon of Athens ... 107 Romeo and Juliet . 110 Shakspeare's English Historical Plays ....... 116 SHAKSPEARE Continued . King John ... PAGE 118 ... Richard.
... 84 87 87 89 90 92 92 94 96 97 100 Julius C¿sar . 102 Antony and Cleopatra .. • 105 Timon of Athens ... 107 Romeo and Juliet . 110 Shakspeare's English Historical Plays ....... 116 SHAKSPEARE Continued . King John ... PAGE 118 ... Richard.
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... King and no King .. 203 The Scornful Lady .. 203 The Custom of the Country . The Elder Brother ... 204 205 The Spanish Curate .. 206 Wit Without Money .. 207 The Humorous Lieutenant 208 The Mad Lover ... 208 The Loyal Subject . 209 Rule ...
... King and no King .. 203 The Scornful Lady .. 203 The Custom of the Country . The Elder Brother ... 204 205 The Spanish Curate .. 206 Wit Without Money .. 207 The Humorous Lieutenant 208 The Mad Lover ... 208 The Loyal Subject . 209 Rule ...
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... ished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , C¿sar ; no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and 40 THE DRAMA GENERALLY ,
... ished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , C¿sar ; no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and 40 THE DRAMA GENERALLY ,
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... king to peasant there arose an enthusiasm for knowledge ; the discovery of a manuscript became the subject of an embassy ; Erasmus read by moonlight , because he could not afford a torch , and begged a penny , not for the love of ...
... king to peasant there arose an enthusiasm for knowledge ; the discovery of a manuscript became the subject of an embassy ; Erasmus read by moonlight , because he could not afford a torch , and begged a penny , not for the love of ...
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... king , when Falstaff exhibits the struggle of in- ward determination with an outward show of humility . ORDER OF SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS . Various attempts have been made to arrange the plays of Shakspeare , each according to its priority in ...
... king , when Falstaff exhibits the struggle of in- ward determination with an outward show of humility . ORDER OF SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS . Various attempts have been made to arrange the plays of Shakspeare , each according to its priority in ...
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Page 120 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd 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 81 - 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 139 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 127 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 164 - I do not think so ; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart ; but it is no matter.
Page 22 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 41 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Page 363 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Page 173 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move and trees to speak ; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.