The Life and Death of King JohnMacmillan, 1890 - 187 pages |
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Page xvii
... never be confounded . It is not to derogate from the poet to say that he is not an historian ; it will be to elevate Shakspere when we compare his poetical truth with the truth of history . We have no wish that he had been more exact ...
... never be confounded . It is not to derogate from the poet to say that he is not an historian ; it will be to elevate Shakspere when we compare his poetical truth with the truth of history . We have no wish that he had been more exact ...
Page xix
... never felt before . He has become the Pope's man , ' the whole country was said to have murmured ; " he has forfeited the very name of king ; from a free man he has degraded himself into a serf . " But this was the belief of a time ...
... never felt before . He has become the Pope's man , ' the whole country was said to have murmured ; " he has forfeited the very name of king ; from a free man he has degraded himself into a serf . " But this was the belief of a time ...
Page xxv
... never , to my thinking , found vent or expression to such glorious purpose as here . Not even in Hotspur or Prince Hal has he mixed with more god - like sleight of hand all the lighter and graver good qualities of the national character ...
... never , to my thinking , found vent or expression to such glorious purpose as here . Not even in Hotspur or Prince Hal has he mixed with more god - like sleight of hand all the lighter and graver good qualities of the national character ...
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... never stir from off this place , I would give it every foot to have this face ; I would not be sir Nob in any case . 130 Eli . I like thee well : wilt thou forsake thy fortune , Bequeath thy land to him and follow me ? I am a soldier ...
... never stir from off this place , I would give it every foot to have this face ; I would not be sir Nob in any case . 130 Eli . I like thee well : wilt thou forsake thy fortune , Bequeath thy land to him and follow me ? I am a soldier ...
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... never holp to make this leg . Lady F. Hast thou conspired with thy brother too , That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour ? What means this scorn , thou most untoward knave ? Bast . Knight , knight , good mother , Basilisco ...
... never holp to make this leg . Lady F. Hast thou conspired with thy brother too , That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour ? What means this scorn , thou most untoward knave ? Bast . Knight , knight , good mother , Basilisco ...
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Page 129 - Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O, I have lost my reputation ! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 178 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O ! you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Page 82 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 52 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 45 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Btuffs out his vacant garments with his form : Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 173 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page 138 - Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Page 50 - Heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word ; Nor look upon the iron angerly : Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 173 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Page 154 - Confusion now hath made his masterpiece ! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o