How to Read Shakespeare: A Guide for the General ReaderHodder and Stoughton, 1913 - 292 pages |
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... means of culture might be vastly increased ; and the purpose of this book is to serve as a Murray or Baedeker for those to whom this is to a large extent an un- visited land - to let them know how to get there and what there is to see ...
... means of culture might be vastly increased ; and the purpose of this book is to serve as a Murray or Baedeker for those to whom this is to a large extent an un- visited land - to let them know how to get there and what there is to see ...
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... mean , and he could enter so sympa- thetically into the views and feelings of king and beg- gar alike that , even when he is expressing an opinion with the greatest force , it is difficult to say whether he is speaking with the force of ...
... mean , and he could enter so sympa- thetically into the views and feelings of king and beg- gar alike that , even when he is expressing an opinion with the greatest force , it is difficult to say whether he is speaking with the force of ...
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... means to say , is just the soldiering of the warriors of the great world with the gilt taken off ; their coarse carnivals are the counterpart of the banquets and pageants of the upper world , only with the ceremony laid aside and the ...
... means to say , is just the soldiering of the warriors of the great world with the gilt taken off ; their coarse carnivals are the counterpart of the banquets and pageants of the upper world , only with the ceremony laid aside and the ...
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... means also that the charm to Prince Hal , when he escaped from the court and the camp and joined his low associates , was to see human nature and human life as they really are , divested of the masks and cloaks of ceremony . But the ...
... means also that the charm to Prince Hal , when he escaped from the court and the camp and joined his low associates , was to see human nature and human life as they really are , divested of the masks and cloaks of ceremony . But the ...
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... and death ; the circumstances of Cæsar's death , the means taken by Decius Brutus to induce him to leave home , the behaviour of Antony , the murder of the poet Cinna ; further on , the contention of 48 HOW TO READ SHAKSPEARE.
... and death ; the circumstances of Cæsar's death , the means taken by Decius Brutus to induce him to leave home , the behaviour of Antony , the murder of the poet Cinna ; further on , the contention of 48 HOW TO READ SHAKSPEARE.
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Page 120 - What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 140 - The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again ; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Page 71 - The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them...
Page 103 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Page 188 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 21 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 108 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto, you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 166 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 20 - To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 274 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.