The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Dramatists, English |
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... husband . Fengon now lived in daily apprehension of meeting the same fate that had overtaken the courtier spy ; and resolving to get rid of Hamlet at once , despatched him with letters to the king of England containing secret ...
... husband . Fengon now lived in daily apprehension of meeting the same fate that had overtaken the courtier spy ; and resolving to get rid of Hamlet at once , despatched him with letters to the king of England containing secret ...
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... husband there is no doubt : the ghost calls the usurper an adulterate beast , " speaks of the queen's " seduction , " and denominates her " seeming virtuous . ” * But the apparition does not even insinuate her privity to the murder ...
... husband there is no doubt : the ghost calls the usurper an adulterate beast , " speaks of the queen's " seduction , " and denominates her " seeming virtuous . ” * But the apparition does not even insinuate her privity to the murder ...
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... husband ; swearing by the majesty of the gods , that if it had lain in her to have resisted the tyrant , although it had been with the loss of blood , yea , and of life , she would surely have saved the life of her lord and husband ...
... husband ; swearing by the majesty of the gods , that if it had lain in her to have resisted the tyrant , although it had been with the loss of blood , yea , and of life , she would surely have saved the life of her lord and husband ...
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... husband rushes in , the gallant slips out ; and the wife knowing all to be now safe , catches her husband in her arms , shrieks aloud , affects to believe him mad , and calls in the neighbours to witness his outrageous conduct : he cuts ...
... husband rushes in , the gallant slips out ; and the wife knowing all to be now safe , catches her husband in her arms , shrieks aloud , affects to believe him mad , and calls in the neighbours to witness his outrageous conduct : he cuts ...
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... husband is the butt of the former , and applause is solicited for the ingenuity of his deceivers . The play ridicules the folly of unreasonable suspicion ; and justly punishes , and exposes to contempt , the grossness and sensuality of ...
... husband is the butt of the former , and applause is solicited for the ingenuity of his deceivers . The play ridicules the folly of unreasonable suspicion ; and justly punishes , and exposes to contempt , the grossness and sensuality of ...
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Page 25 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Page 152 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 24 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness...
Page 310 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 106 - Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th
Page 47 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 152 - Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Page 230 - I found you as a morsel cold upon Dead Caesar's trencher. Nay, you were a fragment Of Cneius Pompey's...
Page 180 - 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.