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... Lucretius and Epicurus in philosophy , and they were Epicureans , unfortunately , in the modern sense of the word . They all died early from the effects of dissipation . Greene was taken ill , and died a month after a drunken feast with ...
... Lucretius and Epicurus in philosophy , and they were Epicureans , unfortunately , in the modern sense of the word . They all died early from the effects of dissipation . Greene was taken ill , and died a month after a drunken feast with ...
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... Lucretius , Plutarch , Aristophanes , Lucian , and others among the ancients who abounded in speculations on the nature of things and plea- santries on religion . If Shakspere did not derive his know- ledge from the originals , he did ...
... Lucretius , Plutarch , Aristophanes , Lucian , and others among the ancients who abounded in speculations on the nature of things and plea- santries on religion . If Shakspere did not derive his know- ledge from the originals , he did ...
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... a materialistic strain , which ' does him wrong , ' says Travers . King Henry , in his night - gown speech , expatiates on the seeds ' of Lucretius , and specu- 6 lates on nature after the manner of the author of 32 EPITOME .
... a materialistic strain , which ' does him wrong , ' says Travers . King Henry , in his night - gown speech , expatiates on the seeds ' of Lucretius , and specu- 6 lates on nature after the manner of the author of 32 EPITOME .
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... Lucretius . Both Banquo and Macbeth speak with his tongue . Macbeth's speech on the death of his wife seems borrowed from Catullus and Seneca - embracing sentiments that in Catullus have always been held indicative of atheism ...
... Lucretius . Both Banquo and Macbeth speak with his tongue . Macbeth's speech on the death of his wife seems borrowed from Catullus and Seneca - embracing sentiments that in Catullus have always been held indicative of atheism ...
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... unknown fear , ' as Lafeu said . Shakspere repeats the old story of the wise of the earth - ignorance is the mother of superstition - or , in 6 6 common with Lucretius , representing religion as the effect of 154 HAMLET .
... unknown fear , ' as Lafeu said . Shakspere repeats the old story of the wise of the earth - ignorance is the mother of superstition - or , in 6 6 common with Lucretius , representing religion as the effect of 154 HAMLET .
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Page 258 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 460 - That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome ; He bears too great a mind : but this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun, And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore, our everlasting farewell take : — For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Page 434 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 170 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole?
Page 419 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 472 - No more, but e'en a woman ; and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks, And does the meanest chares.*— It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them, that this world did equal theirs, Till they had stolen our jewel.
Page 250 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time ; And, by the necessary form of this, King Richard might create a perfect guess.
Page 186 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king: The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 360 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 161 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.