Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page xxii
... he seldom escapes without the pity or resent- ment of his reader . " Poor Shakespear ! Between the charges here brought against him , of want of nature in the first instance , and of want of skill in the second xxii Preface.
... he seldom escapes without the pity or resent- ment of his reader . " Poor Shakespear ! Between the charges here brought against him , of want of nature in the first instance , and of want of skill in the second xxii Preface.
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... Poor I am stale , a garment out of fashion , And for I am richer than to hang by th ' walls , I must be ript ; to pieces with me . Oh , Men's vows are women's traitors . All good seeming By thy revolt , oh husband , shall be thought Put ...
... Poor I am stale , a garment out of fashion , And for I am richer than to hang by th ' walls , I must be ript ; to pieces with me . Oh , Men's vows are women's traitors . All good seeming By thy revolt , oh husband , shall be thought Put ...
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... poor a figure in love , he is described as assuming an air of conse- quence as the Queen's son in a council of state , and with all the absurdity of his person and manners , is not without shrewdness in his observations . true is it ...
... poor a figure in love , he is described as assuming an air of conse- quence as the Queen's son in a council of state , and with all the absurdity of his person and manners , is not without shrewdness in his observations . true is it ...
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... poor un- fledg'd Have never wing'd from view o ' th ' nest ; nor know not What air's from home . Haply this life is best , If quiet life is best ; sweeter to you That have a sharper known ; well corresponding With your stiff age ; but ...
... poor un- fledg'd Have never wing'd from view o ' th ' nest ; nor know not What air's from home . Haply this life is best , If quiet life is best ; sweeter to you That have a sharper known ; well corresponding With your stiff age ; but ...
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... poor heart Would fain deny , and dare not . " We can conceive a common actor to play Richard tolerably well ; we can conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had encountered the Weird Sisters . All the ...
... poor heart Would fain deny , and dare not . " We can conceive a common actor to play Richard tolerably well ; we can conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had encountered the Weird Sisters . All the ...
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acter admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus appear banished Banquo beauty blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius char character circumstances Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona doth dramatic eyes Falstaff father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago imagination Juliet JULIUS CÆSAR king lady Lear live look lord lover Macbeth Malvolio manner Mark Antony MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity pleasure poet poetry Prince refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shakespear shew Sir Toby sleep soul speak speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee things thou art thought Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto W. E. Henley wife words youth