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... stage of society , mere law is lost in the multitude of other interests and affairs ; in a simpler stage , it would concentrate attention by an isolated importance . A meagre state of the body lays bare the outline of its structure ; a ...
... stage of society , mere law is lost in the multitude of other interests and affairs ; in a simpler stage , it would concentrate attention by an isolated importance . A meagre state of the body lays bare the outline of its structure ; a ...
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... stage of life with which it does not concern itself ; from " the infant , mewling and puking in the nurse's arms , " to the ee last scene of all , that ends this strange , eventful history , in second childishness and mere oblivion ...
... stage of life with which it does not concern itself ; from " the infant , mewling and puking in the nurse's arms , " to the ee last scene of all , that ends this strange , eventful history , in second childishness and mere oblivion ...
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... stage ; but then Shakespeare's are the only plays of his time , with extremely few exceptions , that are ever now brought upon the stage . Nature insists on novelty ; and novelty even , without nature , is too strong for Shakespeare ...
... stage ; but then Shakespeare's are the only plays of his time , with extremely few exceptions , that are ever now brought upon the stage . Nature insists on novelty ; and novelty even , without nature , is too strong for Shakespeare ...
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... stage , or to secure perusal . Some of Shakespeare's tragedies are constantly acted on the stage ; all of them are constantly studied in perusal . The perpetuity of his genius in our literature and in our life is still more decisively ...
... stage , or to secure perusal . Some of Shakespeare's tragedies are constantly acted on the stage ; all of them are constantly studied in perusal . The perpetuity of his genius in our literature and in our life is still more decisively ...
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... stage which always seems the best adapted to embody the representative poet of a literature and of a race ; and Shakespeare must now surely be considered the representative poet not only of the English race , but also of English ...
... stage which always seems the best adapted to embody the representative poet of a literature and of a race ; and Shakespeare must now surely be considered the representative poet not only of the English race , but also of English ...
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Page 277 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these...
Page 126 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 51 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 54 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 112 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 126 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 47 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Page 53 - When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make...
Page 49 - By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear, To hearken if his foes pursue him still; Anon their loud alarums he doth hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing bell.
Page 32 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.