The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, 1853 - 345 pages |
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... stand this test : the old , the grave , and the severe , will disapprove , perhaps , the more soft ( and as they may call them ) trifling lovtales , so elegantly breathed forth , and so emphatically extolled by the young , the gay , and ...
... stand this test : the old , the grave , and the severe , will disapprove , perhaps , the more soft ( and as they may call them ) trifling lovtales , so elegantly breathed forth , and so emphatically extolled by the young , the gay , and ...
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... stands as an acknowledgment of the imitation . Mr. Capel Lofft has , perhaps , very fairly estimated the extent of Shakspeare's lit- erary acquirements : " He had what would now be considered a very reasonable proportion of Latin ; he ...
... stands as an acknowledgment of the imitation . Mr. Capel Lofft has , perhaps , very fairly estimated the extent of Shakspeare's lit- erary acquirements : " He had what would now be considered a very reasonable proportion of Latin ; he ...
Page xvii
... standing by the side of the road . If , as it has been observed by the late Mr. T. Warton , the meanest hovel to which Shakspeare has an allusion interests curiosity , and acquires an importance , surely the tree which has spread its ...
... standing by the side of the road . If , as it has been observed by the late Mr. T. Warton , the meanest hovel to which Shakspeare has an allusion interests curiosity , and acquires an importance , surely the tree which has spread its ...
Page xxix
... standing in a garden , points to the tops of fruit - trees gilded by the moon . The prologue speaker to the Second Part of King Henry IV . , expressly shows the spectators , " this worm- eaten hold of ragged stone , " in which ...
... standing in a garden , points to the tops of fruit - trees gilded by the moon . The prologue speaker to the Second Part of King Henry IV . , expressly shows the spectators , " this worm- eaten hold of ragged stone , " in which ...
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... stands second in the list of the proprietors of the Globe , and Black- friars , in the license granted to them by James the First in 1603 : and his industry in supporting these establishments was indefatigable . Besides the plays which ...
... stands second in the list of the proprietors of the Globe , and Black- friars , in the license granted to them by James the First in 1603 : and his industry in supporting these establishments was indefatigable . Besides the plays which ...
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Page 19 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 172 - Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 238 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 132 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 50 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 278 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 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 90 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 108 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 255 - 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 204 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.