Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... whole nature is that of a man of moderation , gentleness , and calm- ness , his whole endeavour that of a circumspect philosopher . He loves his people , but he relishes not their loud applause and thronging , nor does he think the man ...
... whole nature is that of a man of moderation , gentleness , and calm- ness , his whole endeavour that of a circumspect philosopher . He loves his people , but he relishes not their loud applause and thronging , nor does he think the man ...
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... whole sex the show of weakness , a great contrast in this to Angelo , who falls with a show of strength and moral austerity . When her virtue is put to the test , she exhibits herself in truth as the hero she had formerly supposed ...
... whole sex the show of weakness , a great contrast in this to Angelo , who falls with a show of strength and moral austerity . When her virtue is put to the test , she exhibits herself in truth as the hero she had formerly supposed ...
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... whole character of this woman . She stands in the midst of the universal depravity , elevated in stainless purity of soul far above all the basenesses of crime , a being whose thoughts already were wafted above the earth , and from ...
... whole character of this woman . She stands in the midst of the universal depravity , elevated in stainless purity of soul far above all the basenesses of crime , a being whose thoughts already were wafted above the earth , and from ...
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... whole nature . Yet till now he is ever master of himself ; once more he bids her farewell . Then , in one simple repeated request , the fatal word escapes him : " come again to - morrow " ! the path of temptation is entered with these ...
... whole nature . Yet till now he is ever master of himself ; once more he bids her farewell . Then , in one simple repeated request , the fatal word escapes him : " come again to - morrow " ! the path of temptation is entered with these ...
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... whole course of Angelo's error , and had had to suffer from it , bears witness to him , that she must believe a due sin- cerity governed his deeds , till he met with her . And that this whole appearance , so much mind , beauty , and ...
... whole course of Angelo's error , and had had to suffer from it , bears witness to him , that she must believe a due sin- cerity governed his deeds , till he met with her . And that this whole appearance , so much mind , beauty , and ...
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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.