Shakespeare's Works, 13. köideHarper & brothers, 1884 |
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... seems to be no authentic record of any performance earlier than 1626 , and the text that has come down to us cannot be traced farther back than 1710 ) , and which may have been based on the pre - Shakespearian play . In the quarto of ...
... seems to be no authentic record of any performance earlier than 1626 , and the text that has come down to us cannot be traced farther back than 1710 ) , and which may have been based on the pre - Shakespearian play . In the quarto of ...
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... seems to have wished to exemplify the moral necessity of a due bal- ance between our attention to the objects of our senses , and our meditation on the workings of our minds , -an equilibrium between the real and the imaginary worlds ...
... seems to have wished to exemplify the moral necessity of a due bal- ance between our attention to the objects of our senses , and our meditation on the workings of our minds , -an equilibrium between the real and the imaginary worlds ...
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... seems to belong , not to the character being more perfectly drawn , but to there being a more intense conception of individual human life than perhaps in any other human composition ; that is , a being with springs of thought , and ...
... seems to belong , not to the character being more perfectly drawn , but to there being a more intense conception of individual human life than perhaps in any other human composition ; that is , a being with springs of thought , and ...
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... seems as if a touch would profane it ; so sanctified in our thoughts by the last and worst of human woes , that we scarcely dare to consider it too deeply . The love of Ophelia , which she never once con- fesses , is like a secret which ...
... seems as if a touch would profane it ; so sanctified in our thoughts by the last and worst of human woes , that we scarcely dare to consider it too deeply . The love of Ophelia , which she never once con- fesses , is like a secret which ...
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... seems to look with a kind yet melancholy complacency on the love- ly being she has destined for the bride of her son ; and the scene in which she is introduced as scattering flowers on the grave of Ophelia is one of those effects of ...
... seems to look with a kind yet melancholy complacency on the love- ly being she has destined for the bride of her son ; and the scene in which she is introduced as scattering flowers on the grave of Ophelia is one of those effects of ...
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Page 84 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 87 - Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all: For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him : then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
Page 100 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians...
Page 50 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, That can denote me truly : these, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play ; But I have that within, which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 128 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Page 116 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form.' indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 54 - tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 47 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no Planets strikE, NO fairy takes, nor witch hath Power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 92 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 91 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?