Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... comedy ; and this comedy will be followed by others : he has at last taken wing , but not as yet toward the realms of tragedy . Corneille also began with comedy , but he was then ig- norant of his own powers , and almost ignorant of the ...
... comedy ; and this comedy will be followed by others : he has at last taken wing , but not as yet toward the realms of tragedy . Corneille also began with comedy , but he was then ig- norant of his own powers , and almost ignorant of the ...
Page 71
... comedy , as it was understood and treated by Shakspeare . Shakspeare's comedy is not , in fact , the comedy of Mo- lière ; nor is it that of Aristophanes , or of the Latin poets . Among the Greeks , and in France , in modern times , com ...
... comedy , as it was understood and treated by Shakspeare . Shakspeare's comedy is not , in fact , the comedy of Mo- lière ; nor is it that of Aristophanes , or of the Latin poets . Among the Greeks , and in France , in modern times , com ...
Page 72
... comedy arises from the difference of time , place , and state of civ- ilization . But in both Aristophanes and Molière realities always constitute the substance of the picture . The man- ners and ideas of their times , the vices and ...
... comedy arises from the difference of time , place , and state of civ- ilization . But in both Aristophanes and Molière realities always constitute the substance of the picture . The man- ners and ideas of their times , the vices and ...
Page 73
... comedy shared man and the world be- tween them , each taking a different domain in the region of realities , and coming by turns to offer to the serious or mirthful consideration of a people who invariably insisted upon simplicity and ...
... comedy shared man and the world be- tween them , each taking a different domain in the region of realities , and coming by turns to offer to the serious or mirthful consideration of a people who invariably insisted upon simplicity and ...
Page 74
... comedy have presented and formed themselves isolatedly in litera- ture , when , in reality , they were incessantly in contact , entwined in the same facts , and intermingled in the same actions , so thoroughly , that it was sometimes ...
... comedy have presented and formed themselves isolatedly in litera- ture , when , in reality , they were incessantly in contact , entwined in the same facts , and intermingled in the same actions , so thoroughly , that it was sometimes ...
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Page 283 - Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 274 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 283 - No more of that ; — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 100 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 38 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Page 40 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 109 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Page 40 - CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair, Fresh-quilted colors through the air. Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree!
Page 163 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.