Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page xxii
... shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply , 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 ...
... shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply , 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 ...
Page 4
... shew that where there is a real attachment to virtue , it has no need to bolster itself up with an outrageous or affected antipathy to vice . The scene in which Pisanio gives Imogen his master's letter , accusing her of incontinency on ...
... shew that where there is a real attachment to virtue , it has no need to bolster itself up with an outrageous or affected antipathy to vice . The scene in which Pisanio gives Imogen his master's letter , accusing her of incontinency on ...
Page 37
... shews him Cassio with the handkerchief in his hand , and making sport ( as he thinks ) of his misfortunes , the intolerable bitterness of his feelings , the extreme sense of shame , makes him fall to praising her accomplishments and ...
... shews him Cassio with the handkerchief in his hand , and making sport ( as he thinks ) of his misfortunes , the intolerable bitterness of his feelings , the extreme sense of shame , makes him fall to praising her accomplishments and ...
Page 49
... Shews not till it be struck : our gentle flame Provokes itself - and like the current flies Each bound it chafes . " The hollow friendship and shuffling evasions of the Athenian lords , their smooth professions and pitiful ingratitude ...
... Shews not till it be struck : our gentle flame Provokes itself - and like the current flies Each bound it chafes . " The hollow friendship and shuffling evasions of the Athenian lords , their smooth professions and pitiful ingratitude ...
Page 54
... shews its head turretted , crowned , and crested . Its front is gilt and blood- stained . Before it " it carries noise , and behind it leaves tears . " It has its altars and its victims , sacrifices , human sacrifices . Kings , priests ...
... shews its head turretted , crowned , and crested . Its front is gilt and blood- stained . Before it " it carries noise , and behind it leaves tears . " It has its altars and its victims , sacrifices , human sacrifices . Kings , priests ...
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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