Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... stage . Literature prospers only when it is so intimately united with the tastes , habits , and entire existence of a people as to be regarded at once as an oc- cupation and a festivity , an amusement and a necessity . Dramatic poetry ...
... stage . Literature prospers only when it is so intimately united with the tastes , habits , and entire existence of a people as to be regarded at once as an oc- cupation and a festivity , an amusement and a necessity . Dramatic poetry ...
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... stage some years afterward as Justice Shallow , had doubtless taken hold of his imagina- tion less as an object of ill humor than as a pleasant caricature . Whether , in their interview , Shakspeare ex- ercised the vivacity of his wit ...
... stage some years afterward as Justice Shallow , had doubtless taken hold of his imagina- tion less as an object of ill humor than as a pleasant caricature . Whether , in their interview , Shakspeare ex- ercised the vivacity of his wit ...
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... stage , and to the part which con- sciousness of his talent may have had in forming the res- olution which directed the flight of his genius . But even the best authenticated traditions on these points are de- ficient alike in ...
... stage , and to the part which con- sciousness of his talent may have had in forming the res- olution which directed the flight of his genius . But even the best authenticated traditions on these points are de- ficient alike in ...
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... stage . Such , in fact , would have been the gradual promotion by which the horse - holder might have raised himself to the honor of admission behind the scenes . But , when turn- ing his idea to the theatre , is it likely that ...
... stage . Such , in fact , would have been the gradual promotion by which the horse - holder might have raised himself to the honor of admission behind the scenes . But , when turn- ing his idea to the theatre , is it likely that ...
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... stage a more serious and moral character than was possessed in other countries by compositions dependent upon the whims of the public , and cursed by the anathemas of the Church . Notwithstanding its coarseness of ideas and language ...
... stage a more serious and moral character than was possessed in other countries by compositions dependent upon the whims of the public , and cursed by the anathemas of the Church . Notwithstanding its coarseness of ideas and language ...
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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.
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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.