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Page 16
... rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well- known passage beginning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained , and prayed me oft forbearance , " sets a keener edge upon it by the inimitable picture of modesty and self - denial . The ...
... rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well- known passage beginning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained , and prayed me oft forbearance , " sets a keener edge upon it by the inimitable picture of modesty and self - denial . The ...
Page 50
... rich indeed , and in descanting on which his spleen serves him for a Muse , is the disproportionate match between Desdemona and the Moor . This is a clue to the character of the lady which he is by no means ready to part with . It is ...
... rich indeed , and in descanting on which his spleen serves him for a Muse , is the disproportionate match between Desdemona and the Moor . This is a clue to the character of the lady which he is by no means ready to part with . It is ...
Page 54
... rich and generous Timon , banquet- ing in gilded palaces , pampered by every luxury , prodigal of his hospitality , courted by crowds of flatterers , poets , painters , lords , ladies , who— " Follow his strides , his lobbies fill with ...
... rich and generous Timon , banquet- ing in gilded palaces , pampered by every luxury , prodigal of his hospitality , courted by crowds of flatterers , poets , painters , lords , ladies , who— " Follow his strides , his lobbies fill with ...
Page 58
... rich conceit Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye On thy low grave " . thus making the winds his funeral dirge , his mourner the murmuring ocean ; and seeking in the everlasting solemnities of nature oblivion of the transitory ...
... rich conceit Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye On thy low grave " . thus making the winds his funeral dirge , his mourner the murmuring ocean ; and seeking in the everlasting solemnities of nature oblivion of the transitory ...
Page 79
... rich and poetical description of her person beginning― " The barge she sat in , like a burnish'd throne , Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold , Purple the sails , and so perfumed , that The winds were love - sick " . seems to ...
... rich and poetical description of her person beginning― " The barge she sat in , like a burnish'd throne , Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold , Purple the sails , and so perfumed , that The winds were love - sick " . seems to ...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: & Lectures on the English Poets William Hazlitt No preview available - 2015 |
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