Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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... heart of mankind , over the very meanness , selfishness , and crime , which oppress and crush them for the hour . Whatever doubts might exist at the historic period in question , as to the validity of young Arthur's title to the crown ...
... heart of mankind , over the very meanness , selfishness , and crime , which oppress and crush them for the hour . Whatever doubts might exist at the historic period in question , as to the validity of young Arthur's title to the crown ...
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... hearts of all who approach him , even the rudest of his uncle's creatures , and gives to this only orphan child the crowning endearment to his widowed mother's heart . That mother herself , it is most important to observe and to bear in ...
... hearts of all who approach him , even the rudest of his uncle's creatures , and gives to this only orphan child the crowning endearment to his widowed mother's heart . That mother herself , it is most important to observe and to bear in ...
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... heart when informed of Arthur's capture . In all these she never once thinks of him as a prince , who ought to be a king - far less of the station to which she is herself entitled . It is the thought of never more be- holding her ...
... heart when informed of Arthur's capture . In all these she never once thinks of him as a prince , who ought to be a king - far less of the station to which she is herself entitled . It is the thought of never more be- holding her ...
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... heart ! We deem it requisite to dwell a little longer upon Mrs. Jameson's general view of this matter , because the error into which she seems to us to fall respecting it , is an essential one , and pervades her criticism of ...
... heart ! We deem it requisite to dwell a little longer upon Mrs. Jameson's general view of this matter , because the error into which she seems to us to fall respecting it , is an essential one , and pervades her criticism of ...
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... heart , indeed , stirred by the deepest of all passions , a widowed mother's boundless and idolatrous love , puts her rich and lively fancy into most active play ; but only her bright strong intellect could mould and elevate those ...
... heart , indeed , stirred by the deepest of all passions , a widowed mother's boundless and idolatrous love , puts her rich and lively fancy into most active play ; but only her bright strong intellect could mould and elevate those ...
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Page 313 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 114 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 336 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Page 362 - Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous ; And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Page 145 - Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction Of noble having, and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal; to me you speak not: If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 112 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 19 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 125 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 310 - What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Page 310 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.