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... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " MACBETH and Lear , Othello and Hamlet , are usually reckoned Shakespear's four principal tragedies . Lear stands first for the profound intensity of the ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " MACBETH and Lear , Othello and Hamlet , are usually reckoned Shakespear's four principal tragedies . Lear stands first for the profound intensity of the ...
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... turn them into beauties . " So fair and foul a day I have not seen , ' & c . " Such welcome and unwelcome news together . ' " Men's lives are like the flowers in their caps , dying or ere they sicken . " " Look like the innocent flower ...
... turn them into beauties . " So fair and foul a day I have not seen , ' & c . " Such welcome and unwelcome news together . ' " Men's lives are like the flowers in their caps , dying or ere they sicken . " " Look like the innocent flower ...
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... turns of battles , are represented to the life . The death of Brutus is worthy of him - it has the dignity of the Roman senator with the firmness of the Stoic philosopher . But what is perhaps better than either , is the little incident ...
... turns of battles , are represented to the life . The death of Brutus is worthy of him - it has the dignity of the Roman senator with the firmness of the Stoic philosopher . But what is perhaps better than either , is the little incident ...
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... turns the storm of passion from himself against Desdemona , and works him up into a trembling agony of doubt and fear , in which he abandons all his love and hopes in a breath . " Now do I see ' tis true . Look here , Iago , All my fond ...
... turns the storm of passion from himself against Desdemona , and works him up into a trembling agony of doubt and fear , in which he abandons all his love and hopes in a breath . " Now do I see ' tis true . Look here , Iago , All my fond ...
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... turn is only a consequence of the domestic and practical part of her dis- position ; and instead of following Othello to the wars , she would gladly have " remained at home a moth of peace , " if her husband could have staid with her ...
... turn is only a consequence of the domestic and practical part of her dis- position ; and instead of following Othello to the wars , she would gladly have " remained at home a moth of peace , " if her husband could have staid with her ...
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admirable affections Antony Apemantus appear Banquo beauty Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban character Chaucer circumstances Claudio comedy Cordelia Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona dost doth dramatic equal eyes Falstaff fancy fear feeling fool friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago imagination interest Juliet king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner Mark Antony MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble o'er objects Othello passages passion person pity play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry prince refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew Sir Toby sleep soul speak speech spirit story striking style sweet tender thee thing thou art thought Titus Andronicus tragedy true truth words writer Yorkshire Tragedy youth