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Page 113
Oh , so light of foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint : A lover may bestride the gossamer , That idles in the wanton summer air , And yet not fall , so light is vanity . The tragic part of this character is of a piece with the ...
Oh , so light of foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint : A lover may bestride the gossamer , That idles in the wanton summer air , And yet not fall , so light is vanity . The tragic part of this character is of a piece with the ...
Page 129
Infect her beauty , You fen - suck'd fogs , drawn by the powerful sun , To fall , and blast her pride ! Regan . O the blest gods ! So will you wish on me , when the rash mood is on . Lear . No , Regan , thou shalt never have my curse ...
Infect her beauty , You fen - suck'd fogs , drawn by the powerful sun , To fall , and blast her pride ! Regan . O the blest gods ! So will you wish on me , when the rash mood is on . Lear . No , Regan , thou shalt never have my curse ...
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Wolsey , the description of his pride and of his fall , are inimitable , and have , besides their gorgeousness of effect , a pathos , which only the genius of Shakespeare could lend to the distresses of a proud , bad man , like Wolsey .
Wolsey , the description of his pride and of his fall , are inimitable , and have , besides their gorgeousness of effect , a pathos , which only the genius of Shakespeare could lend to the distresses of a proud , bad man , like Wolsey .
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| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Volume 205 of World's classics |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Contributor | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| Publisher | H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 May 2011 |
| Length | 287 pages |
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