Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... character and full effect , the works of this prodigious ge- nius . This arises not only from the fact that every trans- lation must necessarily be imperfect and insufficient , but also on account of the particular turn of Shakspeare's ...
... character and full effect , the works of this prodigious ge- nius . This arises not only from the fact that every trans- lation must necessarily be imperfect and insufficient , but also on account of the particular turn of Shakspeare's ...
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... character and full effect , the works of this prodigious ge- nius . This arises not only from the fact that every trans- lation must necessarily be imperfect and insufficient , but also on account of the particular turn of Shakspeare's ...
... character and full effect , the works of this prodigious ge- nius . This arises not only from the fact that every trans- lation must necessarily be imperfect and insufficient , but also on account of the particular turn of Shakspeare's ...
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... character , to extend and vivify their moral existence , to reveal to them faculties which they unconsciously possess , and to procure for them enjoyments which they eagerly seize , but which they would not even seek after , if a ...
... character , to extend and vivify their moral existence , to reveal to them faculties which they unconsciously possess , and to procure for them enjoyments which they eagerly seize , but which they would not even seek after , if a ...
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... character . The vanquished were oppressed , but they had not to humiliate their weakness before the brutal manners of their masters ; and the vic- tors were not compelled to submit by degrees to the rule of the more polished manners of ...
... character . The vanquished were oppressed , but they had not to humiliate their weakness before the brutal manners of their masters ; and the vic- tors were not compelled to submit by degrees to the rule of the more polished manners of ...
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... character of agitation and publicity which calls for the appearance of a popular poetry . In other countries , the general tendency was to the separation of the various social conditions , and even to the isolation of individuals . In ...
... character of agitation and publicity which calls for the appearance of a popular poetry . In other countries , the general tendency was to the separation of the various social conditions , and even to the isolation of individuals . In ...
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SHAKSPEARE & HIS TIMES Francois 1787-1874 Guizot,Achille-Leon-Victor Duc De Broglie, 1. No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 283 - Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 274 - 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 283 - No more of that ; — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 100 - 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 38 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 322 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 40 - 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 109 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Page 40 - CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair, Fresh-quilted colors through the air. Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree!
Page 163 - 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.