Shakspeare and His TimesR. Bentley, 1852 - 424 pages |
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... allowed me to include in this volume . These Essays constitute , in some sort , proofs in support of the ideas which , in 1821 , I endeavoured to develop regarding the nature of dramatic art in general , and the particular and ...
... allowed me to include in this volume . These Essays constitute , in some sort , proofs in support of the ideas which , in 1821 , I endeavoured to develop regarding the nature of dramatic art in general , and the particular and ...
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... keener delights ; they are possessed of faculties which the monotony of their existence has allowed to lie dormant in inactivity . If these faculties be awakened by a powerful voice ; if an animated narrative B 2 SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES .
... keener delights ; they are possessed of faculties which the monotony of their existence has allowed to lie dormant in inactivity . If these faculties be awakened by a powerful voice ; if an animated narrative B 2 SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES .
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... allowing itself to be led astray by its high fortune , dramatic art has lost or compromised its energy and liberty . When the superior classes can fully give themselves up to their position , they fall into the error or misfortune of ...
... allowing itself to be led astray by its high fortune , dramatic art has lost or compromised its energy and liberty . When the superior classes can fully give themselves up to their position , they fall into the error or misfortune of ...
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... sincere adherents of either party , the hopes of triumph which so singular a position allowed each to entertain , still kept in activity those timidly courageous individuals whom tyranny is obliged to pursue SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES . 13.
... sincere adherents of either party , the hopes of triumph which so singular a position allowed each to entertain , still kept in activity those timidly courageous individuals whom tyranny is obliged to pursue SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES . 13.
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... allowed the woman to come in . Their excuse was , " that it was not the custom ever to refuse to minstrels admission into the royal houses . " During the reign of Henry VI . , we find that the minstrels , who undertook to impart mirth ...
... allowed the woman to come in . Their excuse was , " that it was not the custom ever to refuse to minstrels admission into the royal houses . " During the reign of Henry VI . , we find that the minstrels , who undertook to impart mirth ...
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Page 122 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 387 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 331 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 49 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 332 - The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 46 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose ; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
Page 197 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 341 - Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
Page 382 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his 180 tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 49 - Above an hour since ; yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, — Whenas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.