New Exegesis of Shakespeare: Interpretation of His Principal Characters and Plays on the Principle of Races |
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... result of the volume . It seems , how- ever , indispensable to give some previous indications , and not impossible to bring them within suitable dimensions . All genius of the supreme order , more especially in the arts , is the ...
... result of the volume . It seems , how- ever , indispensable to give some previous indications , and not impossible to bring them within suitable dimensions . All genius of the supreme order , more especially in the arts , is the ...
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... results rightly deemed incongruous - is not side- ward , but downward ; not by the horns , but between them , into the ground floor of the Roman character . Here , in fact , would have been found the natural level of the common race ...
... results rightly deemed incongruous - is not side- ward , but downward ; not by the horns , but between them , into the ground floor of the Roman character . Here , in fact , would have been found the natural level of the common race ...
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... result of this various triage that might be suitably confronted with the state of the Italians , to the dispulsion of many an error . But it would be the labour of a treatise , not a paragraph , which is the utmost proper to the present ...
... result of this various triage that might be suitably confronted with the state of the Italians , to the dispulsion of many an error . But it would be the labour of a treatise , not a paragraph , which is the utmost proper to the present ...
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... result of examples or omens or oaths . Hence it is that in their code there were no quarrels between law and equity , as in the English , where the latter " breaks the teeth " of the former . The supreme test of Roman morals lay in ...
... result of examples or omens or oaths . Hence it is that in their code there were no quarrels between law and equity , as in the English , where the latter " breaks the teeth " of the former . The supreme test of Roman morals lay in ...
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... results ! Though this libe- rator does sometimes elude the quarantine , which is opposed by the paternal supervisors to the pestilence , it has been long observed no doubt less piously than perspicaciously - that the Italian , in his ...
... results ! Though this libe- rator does sometimes elude the quarantine , which is opposed by the paternal supervisors to the pestilence , it has been long observed no doubt less piously than perspicaciously - that the Italian , in his ...
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Page 239 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 77 - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!
Page 125 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 212 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 269 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 69 - Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 163 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, "Thus thou must do, if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should...
Page 219 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 130 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 257 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.