Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... young days there were not above two or three , if so many , in most uplandish towns of the realm ( the religious houses and manor - places of their lords always excepted ) . ' Our fathers , ' they said , ' lay full oft upon straw ...
... young days there were not above two or three , if so many , in most uplandish towns of the realm ( the religious houses and manor - places of their lords always excepted ) . ' Our fathers , ' they said , ' lay full oft upon straw ...
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... young and inexperienced court , the language of adulation far exceeded the servility of the adulator ; and in the country , in which ancient institu- tions had by no means perished , the government was far from exercising universal sway ...
... young and inexperienced court , the language of adulation far exceeded the servility of the adulator ; and in the country , in which ancient institu- tions had by no means perished , the government was far from exercising universal sway ...
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... young imagination was already incapable of subjecting itself to so vile an employment without connecting there- with some ennobling idea or sentiment . " When he killed a calf , " said the people of the neighborhood to Aubrey , " he ...
... young imagination was already incapable of subjecting itself to so vile an employment without connecting there- with some ennobling idea or sentiment . " When he killed a calf , " said the people of the neighborhood to Aubrey , " he ...
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... young poet participated , with all the population of the surrounding country , in the pleasure and admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless ...
... young poet participated , with all the population of the surrounding country , in the pleasure and admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless ...
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... young man . In times when life is difficult and manners coarse , this is rarely the case in regard to the poet , who is formed by nature alone . Nothing reveals him so speedily to him- self ; he must have felt much before he can think ...
... young man . In times when life is difficult and manners coarse , this is rarely the case in regard to the poet , who is formed by nature alone . Nothing reveals him so speedily to him- self ; he must have felt much before he can think ...
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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
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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.
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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.