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... reason that Shakspeare's wicked women have such a singular hold upon our fancy , is from the consistent pre- servation of the feminine character , which renders them more terrible , because more credible and intelligible - not like ...
... reason that Shakspeare's wicked women have such a singular hold upon our fancy , is from the consistent pre- servation of the feminine character , which renders them more terrible , because more credible and intelligible - not like ...
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... reason from a consideration of past events , their causes and consequences . But they are always political through their affections , their prejudices , their personal liaisons , their hopes , their fears . MEDON . If it were no worse ...
... reason from a consideration of past events , their causes and consequences . But they are always political through their affections , their prejudices , their personal liaisons , their hopes , their fears . MEDON . If it were no worse ...
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... , the strength of her reason , and her love for her husband , combine at this critical moment to conquer all fear but the fear of detection , leaving her the full possession of her faculties . Recollect that INTRODUCTION . 59.
... , the strength of her reason , and her love for her husband , combine at this critical moment to conquer all fear but the fear of detection , leaving her the full possession of her faculties . Recollect that INTRODUCTION . 59.
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... reason is no longer awake and paramount over the violated feelings of nature and womanhood , we behold her making un- conscious efforts to wash out that " damned spot , " and sighing , heart - broken , over that little hand which all ...
... reason is no longer awake and paramount over the violated feelings of nature and womanhood , we behold her making un- conscious efforts to wash out that " damned spot , " and sighing , heart - broken , over that little hand which all ...
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... reason may be found in some higher beauty and more universal truth . ALDA . I have proved this , I think , by placing parallel with the dramatic character all the historic testimony I could collect relative to Constance , Cleopatra 62 ...
... reason may be found in some higher beauty and more universal truth . ALDA . I have proved this , I think , by placing parallel with the dramatic character all the historic testimony I could collect relative to Constance , Cleopatra 62 ...
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Page 237 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Page 168 - Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo ! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 93 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 238 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page 113 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 240 - Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. — Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the Winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both,7 And welcome to our shearing ! Polix.
Page 12 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 115 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Page 114 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 168 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.