Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 3Redfield, 1856 |
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... performed , and is not ready to perform , the duties of a soldier . Even the attendant of the chief justice , with the assent of the hostile lordship , admits that he has done good service at Shrewsbury . All this , and much more , is ...
... performed , and is not ready to perform , the duties of a soldier . Even the attendant of the chief justice , with the assent of the hostile lordship , admits that he has done good service at Shrewsbury . All this , and much more , is ...
Page 59
... performing the same part to the clown , as he had been designedly performing to Jaques . Witty nonsense is answered by duf nonsense , as the emptiness of poetry had been answered by the empti- ness of prose . There was nothing sincere ...
... performing the same part to the clown , as he had been designedly performing to Jaques . Witty nonsense is answered by duf nonsense , as the emptiness of poetry had been answered by the empti- ness of prose . There was nothing sincere ...
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... performed Juliet to the Romeo of a small - statured amateur named Godfrey , it was utterly impossible for the " mite of a man " to attempt carrying out the stage directions , and the fair and lofty Juliet , supposed to have scarcely ...
... performed Juliet to the Romeo of a small - statured amateur named Godfrey , it was utterly impossible for the " mite of a man " to attempt carrying out the stage directions , and the fair and lofty Juliet , supposed to have scarcely ...
Page 90
... perform . As a lover , he promises to make the audience weep ; but his talent is still more shining in the Herculean vein of a tyrant . The manliness of his counte- nance , he admits , incapacitates him from acting the part of a heroine ...
... perform . As a lover , he promises to make the audience weep ; but his talent is still more shining in the Herculean vein of a tyrant . The manliness of his counte- nance , he admits , incapacitates him from acting the part of a heroine ...
Page 91
... perform them all , he is restricted to the principal . It is with the softest compliments that he is induced to ... performed vote him to be an ass : but what * Act V. Scene 1 . matter is that ? He mixes not with them ; BOTTOM , THE ...
... perform them all , he is restricted to the principal . It is with the softest compliments that he is induced to ... performed vote him to be an ass : but what * Act V. Scene 1 . matter is that ? He mixes not with them ; BOTTOM , THE ...
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Page 52 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 217 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 229 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 216 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 143 - tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true: a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 160 - 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 ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility'? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 289 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 50 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Page 198 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 324 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...