Shaksperean Fly-leavesH. Wallis, 1879 - 50 pages |
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accomplish acts aged monarch Albany anger answer Ariel awakening banishment Bermudas bids boatswain Burgundy Caliban cause character characterisation circumstances conduct Cordelia Cornwall course of action daughter death desires display doth Dramatic Album dread duke duty Edgar EDITION Edmund elder evil fail faithful father fear feeling Ferdinand fierce filial fool foul fully fulness gentle give Gloucester Goneril and Regan Gonzalo H. T. HALL harsh HARVARD COLLEGE hath heart hideous rashness honest honour humanity Iago impetuosity ingratitude innocence Kent king KING LEAR knows Lear Lear's lord madness maid manifest manliness Memorial Library mental Miranda monster nature ness never noble Oswald plain speaking plot possessed professes Prospero rage result scene Sebastian and Antonio seeks seize serve Shakspere's Plays SHAKSPEREAN FLY-LEAVES Shaksperean Statistics SIDNEY STREET sister sorrows Stephano storm sympathy tells TEMPEST thee thought tragedy tragic Trinculo true truly truth undergo unnatural various Hands vengeance villain WALLIS weak wrong
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Page 34 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 5 - Tyrannus or the Agamemnon, or, if you will, the trilogies with which they are connected; unless the intense power of the choral poetry, especially that of the latter, should be considered as restoring the equilibrium. King Lear, if it can sustain this comparison, may be judged to be the most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world...
Page 40 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Page 10 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me : I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply...
Page 26 - I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast...
Page 10 - I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour; As much as child e'er loved, or father found; A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
Page 12 - Create her child of spleen ; that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ; With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks ; Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! Away, away ! [Exit.
Page 10 - Tell me, my daughters, Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state, Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Page 33 - s not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point.
Page 18 - The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.