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... storm by which Sir George Somers was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda , in the year 1609 , unquestionably gave rise to Shakespeare's Tempest , and suggested to him the title , as well as some of the incidents , of that admirable ...
... storm by which Sir George Somers was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda , in the year 1609 , unquestionably gave rise to Shakespeare's Tempest , and suggested to him the title , as well as some of the incidents , of that admirable ...
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... storm at his pleasure , there is no a priori improbability in the supposition that his thoughts may have been influenced by what must have been the topic of common conversation ; and the reference to the ' still - vext Bermoothes ...
... storm at his pleasure , there is no a priori improbability in the supposition that his thoughts may have been influenced by what must have been the topic of common conversation ; and the reference to the ' still - vext Bermoothes ...
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... storm , the only mark of time which occurs in the play is to be found in Act ii . Scene 2 , where Trinculo says , ' When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar , they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian . ' But it is ...
... storm , the only mark of time which occurs in the play is to be found in Act ii . Scene 2 , where Trinculo says , ' When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar , they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian . ' But it is ...
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... - blance between the incidents of the wreck in the play and those of the storm encountered by the Virginian fleet in 1609 , it is worth while to quote the following from Strachey's ac- " count as given in Purchas , iv . p X PREFACE .
... - blance between the incidents of the wreck in the play and those of the storm encountered by the Virginian fleet in 1609 , it is worth while to quote the following from Strachey's ac- " count as given in Purchas , iv . p X PREFACE .
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... storm in his mind while writing The Tempest , he insisted upon determining the position of Prospero's island with rigid accuracy . Follow- ing Douce , he contended , with the full assurance of conviction , that this was Lampedusa , an ...
... storm in his mind while writing The Tempest , he insisted upon determining the position of Prospero's island with rigid accuracy . Follow- ing Douce , he contended , with the full assurance of conviction , that this was Lampedusa , an ...
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Page 60 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 86 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady,, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 26 - V the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things : for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate : Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation : all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure; 150 No sovereignty ; — Seb.
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Page 16 - em. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou stroked'st me, and made much of me ; wouldst give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Page 60 - I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Page 121 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Page 59 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 27 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 60 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...