Shakespeare and His TimesHarper, 1855 - 360 pages |
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... less than profanation to apply the words genius and glory to dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse . At the present day , all controversy regarding Shaks- peare's genius and glory has come to an end . No one ventures ...
... less than profanation to apply the words genius and glory to dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse . At the present day , all controversy regarding Shaks- peare's genius and glory has come to an end . No one ventures ...
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... less dependent for its de- velopment upon the progress of civilization , as it is pow- erful and pure even in the most backward state of society . From its very beginning , dramatic poetry has invoked the aid of piety , because , of all ...
... less dependent for its de- velopment upon the progress of civilization , as it is pow- erful and pure even in the most backward state of society . From its very beginning , dramatic poetry has invoked the aid of piety , because , of all ...
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... less unity . During more than ten centuries , nothing was easy , general , or simple in our Europe . Religion , liberty , public order , literature - noth- ing has been developed among us without long - continued effort , in the midst ...
... less unity . During more than ten centuries , nothing was easy , general , or simple in our Europe . Religion , liberty , public order , literature - noth- ing has been developed among us without long - continued effort , in the midst ...
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... less subjected by a scientifically constructed despotism , and even by a well - regulated liberty . Thus it was that the age of Richelieu and Louis XIV . consciously possessed that amount of liberty which has furnished us with a ...
... less subjected by a scientifically constructed despotism , and even by a well - regulated liberty . Thus it was that the age of Richelieu and Louis XIV . consciously possessed that amount of liberty which has furnished us with a ...
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... less skillfully organ- ised than it was in France under Louis XIV . , had to treat with much more deeply - rooted principles of liberty . It would be a mistake to measure the despotism of Elizabeth by the speeches of her flatterers , or ...
... less skillfully organ- ised than it was in France under Louis XIV . , had to treat with much more deeply - rooted principles of liberty . It would be a mistake to measure the despotism of Elizabeth by the speeches of her flatterers , or ...
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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.