King Richard the Third ...Harper & brothers, 1884 - 256 pages |
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... crown , was distinguished by the nobleness and beauty of his figure , and was an almost irresistible conqueror of female hearts . Notwithstanding his pretended renunciation , Richard places his chief vanity in being able to please and ...
... crown , was distinguished by the nobleness and beauty of his figure , and was an almost irresistible conqueror of female hearts . Notwithstanding his pretended renunciation , Richard places his chief vanity in being able to please and ...
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... crown , Lord Hastings threatens to prove an obstacle in the way . What is to be done ? Buckingham is dubious and tentative : " Now , my lord , what shall we do , if we perceive Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots ? " With sharp ...
... crown , Lord Hastings threatens to prove an obstacle in the way . What is to be done ? Buckingham is dubious and tentative : " Now , my lord , what shall we do , if we perceive Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots ? " With sharp ...
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... crown , cynically loveless towards his feeble and unhappy wife , Richard admires with an enthusiastic admiration his great father : " Methinks ' t is prize enough to be his son . " And the memory of his father supplies him with a family ...
... crown , cynically loveless towards his feeble and unhappy wife , Richard admires with an enthusiastic admiration his great father : " Methinks ' t is prize enough to be his son . " And the memory of his father supplies him with a family ...
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... crown -- ( note Richard's utter brutality and baseness in his insinuation of his mother's adultery ) . 12. With Buckingham about the murder of the princes . 13. With Queen Elizabeth when he repeats the scene of his wooing with Anne , as ...
... crown -- ( note Richard's utter brutality and baseness in his insinuation of his mother's adultery ) . 12. With Buckingham about the murder of the princes . 13. With Queen Elizabeth when he repeats the scene of his wooing with Anne , as ...
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... crown ; And , for his meed , poor lord , he is mew'd up . I would to God my heart were flint , like Edward's , Or Edward's soft and pitiful , like mine ; I am too childish - foolish for this world . 140 Queen Margaret . Hie thee to hell ...
... crown ; And , for his meed , poor lord , he is mew'd up . I would to God my heart were flint , like Edward's , Or Edward's soft and pitiful , like mine ; I am too childish - foolish for this world . 140 Queen Margaret . Hie thee to hell ...
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Page 200 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 38 - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 155 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 32 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 63 - Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes...
Page 211 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 156 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 156 - For hateful deeds committed by myself! I am a villain ; yet I lie, I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well. — Fool, do not flatter. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condernns me for a villain.
Page 185 - And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Page 64 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling wak'd, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, — Such terrible impression made my dream.