Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... lies close by the side of the severity which the subject required . If any one believes Shakespeare to have been sunk in melancholy during this latter period of his life , and sees him dwell with satisfaction upon the gloomy pictures of ...
... lies close by the side of the severity which the subject required . If any one believes Shakespeare to have been sunk in melancholy during this latter period of his life , and sees him dwell with satisfaction upon the gloomy pictures of ...
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... lie almost all the magnificent works , which ever come fore- most to our mind , when Shakespeare is spoken of . The English language was fashioned anew under his hands , as our own was under Luther's , and with pride Meres declares of ...
... lie almost all the magnificent works , which ever come fore- most to our mind , when Shakespeare is spoken of . The English language was fashioned anew under his hands , as our own was under Luther's , and with pride Meres declares of ...
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... lies an overstraining , which avenges itself with the contrary reaction . There was good in the Duke's mildness , but it turned to the detriment of the common weal , and scattered the seeds of crime . There was good in Angelo's severity ...
... lies an overstraining , which avenges itself with the contrary reaction . There was good in the Duke's mildness , but it turned to the detriment of the common weal , and scattered the seeds of crime . There was good in Angelo's severity ...
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... lies in the facts , it is to be found also in the images and similes of this poem so rich in maxims . Thus the crowd ... lie in the characters and in the contrast of their position with regard to each other . The single character of ...
... lies in the facts , it is to be found also in the images and similes of this poem so rich in maxims . Thus the crowd ... lie in the characters and in the contrast of their position with regard to each other . The single character of ...
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... lies before us , beyond the notice of a performance in 1604 , we place by the side of Measure for Measure a play which , though from another point of view , makes upon most readers a similarly painful impression . Both pieces demand the ...
... lies before us , beyond the notice of a performance in 1604 , we place by the side of Measure for Measure a play which , though from another point of view , makes upon most readers a similarly painful impression . Both pieces demand the ...
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Page 53 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 621 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 66 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 330 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 8 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 297 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Page 136 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 335 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
Page 228 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Page 285 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.