Shakespeare and His TimesHarper, 1855 - 360 pages |
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... complete works , which was published at Paris in 1821 . This edition was based upon the translation of Shakspeare's plays which was commenced in 1776 by Le Tourneur , and which , at that period , gave rise to such animated disputes in ...
... complete works , which was published at Paris in 1821 . This edition was based upon the translation of Shakspeare's plays which was commenced in 1776 by Le Tourneur , and which , at that period , gave rise to such animated disputes in ...
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... complete repose seems to be the first and almost the sole condition of pleasure . A momentary suspension of the efforts or privations of daily life , an interval of movement and liberty , a relative abundance ; this is all that the peo ...
... complete repose seems to be the first and almost the sole condition of pleasure . A momentary suspension of the efforts or privations of daily life , an interval of movement and liberty , a relative abundance ; this is all that the peo ...
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... complete independence of the borrowed forms and foreign sap which it elsewhere received from the old civilization of the South . This important fact , which per- haps determined the course of political institutions in En- gland , could ...
... complete independence of the borrowed forms and foreign sap which it elsewhere received from the old civilization of the South . This important fact , which per- haps determined the course of political institutions in En- gland , could ...
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... complete work had issued from his pen , a jealous and discontented author , whose compositions he had probably improved too greatly , speaks of him , in the fantastic style of the time , as an " upstart crow , beautified with our ...
... complete work had issued from his pen , a jealous and discontented author , whose compositions he had probably improved too greatly , speaks of him , in the fantastic style of the time , as an " upstart crow , beautified with our ...
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... complete harmony . Social conditions , separated by power , but united in a common barbarism of manners ; the germ of loftiest moral truths fermenting in the midst of absurd ignorance ; great virtues applied in opposition to all reason ...
... complete harmony . Social conditions , separated by power , but united in a common barbarism of manners ; the germ of loftiest moral truths fermenting in the midst of absurd ignorance ; great virtues applied in opposition to all reason ...
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Shakespeare and His Times Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot,Achille-Leon-Victor Broglie (Duc De) No preview available - 2015 |
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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.