Cymbeline. Titus Andron. Pericles. K. LearEstes and Lauriat, 1887 |
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... mind , the Poet's last and highest stage of art . But these points have been sufficiently dwelt upon in the other plays which we reckon to the same period ; so that there is no need of pursuing them here . Every discerning and careful ...
... mind , the Poet's last and highest stage of art . But these points have been sufficiently dwelt upon in the other plays which we reckon to the same period ; so that there is no need of pursuing them here . Every discerning and careful ...
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... mind . Less grand and lofty in design than the Poet's great tragedies , Hamlet , Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , it scarce falls be- hind any of them in grace and power of execution . One cannot easily conceive how a finer and more ...
... mind . Less grand and lofty in design than the Poet's great tragedies , Hamlet , Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , it scarce falls be- hind any of them in grace and power of execution . One cannot easily conceive how a finer and more ...
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... mind and character ; she so fills the inner eye , that what touches the outer is scarce heeded more than if it were ... minds of every thing but what is in her own . But it is needless to dwell upon , it is impossible to exhaust the ...
... mind and character ; she so fills the inner eye , that what touches the outer is scarce heeded more than if it were ... minds of every thing but what is in her own . But it is needless to dwell upon , it is impossible to exhaust the ...
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... mind . There are the materials of a man in him , but they are not made up : his whole being seems a mase unhingement , disorder , and jumble , full of unaccountable jerks and twitches : the several parts of him hold no mutual in ...
... mind . There are the materials of a man in him , but they are not made up : his whole being seems a mase unhingement , disorder , and jumble , full of unaccountable jerks and twitches : the several parts of him hold no mutual in ...
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... mind , so to speak , through which it comes sprawling out . Therewithal , he is rude , coarse , boisterous , vain , insolent , ambitious , malignant . Thus rendered ludicrous by whatsoever is best in him , and rendered frightful by ...
... mind , so to speak , through which it comes sprawling out . Therewithal , he is rude , coarse , boisterous , vain , insolent , ambitious , malignant . Thus rendered ludicrous by whatsoever is best in him , and rendered frightful by ...
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Andronicus Bawd better Boult brother CHIRON Cleon Cloten Cordelia Corn Cymbeline daughter dead death Dionyza dost doth Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear folio follow Fool Gent gentleman Gentlemen of Verona give Gloster gods Goneril Goths GUIDERIUS hand hath hear heart heaven honour i'the Iach Iachimo Imogen Kent king King Lear lady Lavinia Lear look lord Lucius LYSIMACHUS madam Marcus Marina means mistress Mitylene nature never night noble o'the old copies Pericles Pisanio play Poet's poor Posthumus pray prince Prince of Tyre quartos queen Regan Roman Rome Saturnine SCENE second folio Shakespeare speak speech Steevens sweet Tamora tears tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast Titus Titus Andronicus villain word
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Page 490 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger ! O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 560 - 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 554 - Be your tears wet? yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. Cor. No cause, no cause.
Page 126 - Fear no more the frown o' the great: Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 453 - Lear. It may be so, my lord. — Hear, nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 415 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the "Malice of daughters and .storms.
Page 575 - Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. — Do you see this ? Look on her, — look, — her lips, — Look there, look there ! — [He dies.
Page 537 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!