Shakespeare and His TimesHarper, 1855 - 360 pages |
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... admired confusion . Amid this natural and fantastic conflict of op- posite elements , the power of opinion , the feeling and habit of liberty , were silently in process of formation : two forces , brilliant at their first appearance and ...
... admired confusion . Amid this natural and fantastic conflict of op- posite elements , the power of opinion , the feeling and habit of liberty , were silently in process of formation : two forces , brilliant at their first appearance and ...
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... admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless , the early years of the poet have transmitted to us , as the only sign of those singularities ...
... admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless , the early years of the poet have transmitted to us , as the only sign of those singularities ...
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... admiration for an- cient literature ; but as soon as it stood in need of amuse- ment , it followed the example of the general public ; and , indeed , it was not easy to pass from the exhibition of a bear - baiting to the pretensions of ...
... admiration for an- cient literature ; but as soon as it stood in need of amuse- ment , it followed the example of the general public ; and , indeed , it was not easy to pass from the exhibition of a bear - baiting to the pretensions of ...
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... admirable scene between Talbot and his son does not bear the impress of his hand . Two old dramas , printed in 1600 , contain the plan , and even numerous details of the second and third parts of " Henry VI . " These two original works ...
... admirable scene between Talbot and his son does not bear the impress of his hand . Two old dramas , printed in 1600 , contain the plan , and even numerous details of the second and third parts of " Henry VI . " These two original works ...
Page 73
... . Order , regularity , natural and easy develop- ment , seem to have been banished from it . Immense in- terests , admirable ideas , sublime sentiments , have been D thrown , as it were , pell - mell with SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES . 73.
... . Order , regularity , natural and easy develop- ment , seem to have been banished from it . Immense in- terests , admirable ideas , sublime sentiments , have been D thrown , as it were , pell - mell with SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES . 73.
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Page 282 - 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 326 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 291 - 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 46 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 108 - 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 171 - 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.
Page 330 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 48 - 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 46 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose ; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
Page 282 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.