The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII, with Various Readings from All the Editions and All the Commentators, Notes, Introductory Remarks, a Historical Sketch of the Text, an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama, a Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay Upon the Genius, Volume 10Little, Brown, 1862 |
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... mind a spring of living beauty , it is hardly worth the trouble very curiously to inquire . The incidents of the tale are based upon political and social conditions which existed in Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century ...
... mind a spring of living beauty , it is hardly worth the trouble very curiously to inquire . The incidents of the tale are based upon political and social conditions which existed in Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century ...
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... mind , or of " that condensed and suggestive cast of language " or " that solemn melody of rhythm " which Mr. Verplanck finds in the added passages , and which ( they existing ) he justly sets forth as indications of the development of ...
... mind , or of " that condensed and suggestive cast of language " or " that solemn melody of rhythm " which Mr. Verplanck finds in the added passages , and which ( they existing ) he justly sets forth as indications of the development of ...
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... mind they hide the fair ; He , that is strucken blind , cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost : Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her beauty serve , but as a note Where I may read , who pass'd that ...
... mind they hide the fair ; He , that is strucken blind , cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost : Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her beauty serve , but as a note Where I may read , who pass'd that ...
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... mind's eye a memory of the action . Stage directions are what their name very exactly expresses . They are directions for the stage , and not for readers . They instruct the actors about their exits and their entrances , and the more ...
... mind's eye a memory of the action . Stage directions are what their name very exactly expresses . They are directions for the stage , and not for readers . They instruct the actors about their exits and their entrances , and the more ...
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... mind presageth ill . Fryer stoops and lookes on the blood and weapons . Act V. Sc . 3 . What blood is this , " & c . Now these directions in the first quarto are not properly stage directions ; for those apply equally to all actors ...
... mind presageth ill . Fryer stoops and lookes on the blood and weapons . Act V. Sc . 3 . What blood is this , " & c . Now these directions in the first quarto are not properly stage directions ; for those apply equally to all actors ...
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Page 369 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 379 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 71 - But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 334 - I have not slept Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 365 - Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Page 57 - O ! then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 478 - Witch Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and...
Page 13 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 320 - I, as ^Eneas, our great ancestor, Did, from the flames of Troy, upon his shoulder, The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tiber, Did I the tired Caesar : and this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body. If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 363 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.