The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Dramatists, English |
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... effect my heart's desire : he that hath to do with a wicked , disloyal , cruel , and discourteous man , must use craft and politic inventions , such as a fine wit can best imagine , not to discover his enterprise ; for seeing that by ...
... effect my heart's desire : he that hath to do with a wicked , disloyal , cruel , and discourteous man , must use craft and politic inventions , such as a fine wit can best imagine , not to discover his enterprise ; for seeing that by ...
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... effect their object : Instead of appearing at once to the to the person most interested , they usually commenced their oper- - ations by presenting themselves to the view of those only remotely , or , sometimes , not at all , concerned ...
... effect their object : Instead of appearing at once to the to the person most interested , they usually commenced their oper- - ations by presenting themselves to the view of those only remotely , or , sometimes , not at all , concerned ...
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... effect is only that of making his conduct appear more absurd and unnatural . The dramatist exerted himself strenuously , to conceal defects which it was not in his power to remove . The hope of supplying his neces- sities furnishes ...
... effect is only that of making his conduct appear more absurd and unnatural . The dramatist exerted himself strenuously , to conceal defects which it was not in his power to remove . The hope of supplying his neces- sities furnishes ...
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... effect his purpose the dramatist took scarcely fewer liberties with the character of Ajax than with that of Achilles . Caxton gives the following de- scription of Ajax : - " Of great stature , great and large in the shoulders , great ...
... effect his purpose the dramatist took scarcely fewer liberties with the character of Ajax than with that of Achilles . Caxton gives the following de- scription of Ajax : - " Of great stature , great and large in the shoulders , great ...
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... effect it . In a familiar interview , he prevails over the " thrice gentle Cassio " to transgress the bounds of his accus- tomed abstemiousness ; and aided by that " trash of Venice , " Roderigo , a quarrel and dis- turbance are created ...
... effect it . In a familiar interview , he prevails over the " thrice gentle Cassio " to transgress the bounds of his accus- tomed abstemiousness ; and aided by that " trash of Venice , " Roderigo , a quarrel and dis- turbance are created ...
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Page 191 - Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 81 - I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown.
Page 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 191 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 91 - Even to the very quality of my lord : I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; And to his honours, and his valiant parts, Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
Page 83 - Ay, there's the point : as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Page 113 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Page 23 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 110 - Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th
Page 47 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.