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... hand , he is more than Vulcan in his smithy . He does not only weld , he creates . " None merits the name of Creator , " cries Tasso save God and the poet . " For the poet also can take of the dust of the ground , and breathe into it ...
... hand , he is more than Vulcan in his smithy . He does not only weld , he creates . " None merits the name of Creator , " cries Tasso save God and the poet . " For the poet also can take of the dust of the ground , and breathe into it ...
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... hand Shakespeare's first play , when we read it in the quarto of 1598 " As it was presented before her Highness the Last Christmas . Newly corrected and aug- mented . " We can see traces both of the corrections and augmentations , and ...
... hand Shakespeare's first play , when we read it in the quarto of 1598 " As it was presented before her Highness the Last Christmas . Newly corrected and aug- mented . " We can see traces both of the corrections and augmentations , and ...
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... and Polyxenes , and the great unravelling , and bids us be content with second hand gossip . “ I never heard of such another encounter , which lames report to follow it , and undoes description to OF HIS ORIGINALS 37.
... and Polyxenes , and the great unravelling , and bids us be content with second hand gossip . “ I never heard of such another encounter , which lames report to follow it , and undoes description to OF HIS ORIGINALS 37.
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... hand , laden with triumph and victory , I should snatch life from those who make mine unhappy . What is the use of a life in which shame and infamy are the executioners which torment our consciences ? He gave her a year to wait until he ...
... hand , laden with triumph and victory , I should snatch life from those who make mine unhappy . What is the use of a life in which shame and infamy are the executioners which torment our consciences ? He gave her a year to wait until he ...
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... hand defy a nation , or even a crowding group of watchful courtiers ? The real Amleth delayed for a year ; Hamlet's delay can be counted in days . He had perforce to wait until the chance came to him to meet the King alone , as man to ...
... hand defy a nation , or even a crowding group of watchful courtiers ? The real Amleth delayed for a year ; Hamlet's delay can be counted in days . He had perforce to wait until the chance came to him to meet the King alone , as man to ...
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Page 175 - 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; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic.
Page 173 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 52 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 63 - The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown
Page 180 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 206 - Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Turning...
Page 94 - The words of the three weird sisters also (of whom before ye have heard) greatly encouraged him hereunto, but specially his wife lay sore upon him to attempt the thing, as she that was very ambitious, burning in unquenchable desire to bear the name of a queen.
Page 116 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 173 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 256 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.