A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen: And on the Characteristics of Shakspere's Style and the Secret of His SupremacyTrübner, 1876 - 118 pages |
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... in their cradles growing , Marigolds on death - beds blowing , " also seeing no fancy even if there were fact in ' em , I applied to the best judge in England vi FOREWORDS . INCONSISTENCY OF EMILIA'S CHARACTER . use of.
... in their cradles growing , Marigolds on death - beds blowing , " also seeing no fancy even if there were fact in ' em , I applied to the best judge in England vi FOREWORDS . INCONSISTENCY OF EMILIA'S CHARACTER . use of.
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... EMILIA'S CHARACTER . use of them in Lucrece ( A.D. 1594 ) : — Without the bed her other fair hand was , On the green coverlet ; whose perfect white Show'd like an April daisy on the grass , With pearly sweat , resembling dew of night ...
... EMILIA'S CHARACTER . use of them in Lucrece ( A.D. 1594 ) : — Without the bed her other fair hand was , On the green coverlet ; whose perfect white Show'd like an April daisy on the grass , With pearly sweat , resembling dew of night ...
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... Emilia , left in the forest , hears the tumult of the battle , and receives successive reports of its changes and issue . But as a gallery of poetical pictures , as a cluster of images suggestive alike to the imagination and the ...
... Emilia , left in the forest , hears the tumult of the battle , and receives successive reports of its changes and issue . But as a gallery of poetical pictures , as a cluster of images suggestive alike to the imagination and the ...
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... EMILIA is the lady of the tale . While the marriage - song is singing , the train are met by three queens in mourning attire , who fall down at the feet of Theseus , Hippolita , and Emilia . They are the widows of three of the princes ...
... EMILIA is the lady of the tale . While the marriage - song is singing , the train are met by three queens in mourning attire , who fall down at the feet of Theseus , Hippolita , and Emilia . They are the widows of three of the princes ...
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... Emilia . ) Now for the love of him whom Jove hath marked The honour of your bed , and for the sake Of clear virginity , be advocate For us and our distresses ! This good deed Shall rase you , out of the Book of Trespasses , All you are ...
... Emilia . ) Now for the love of him whom Jove hath marked The honour of your bed , and for the sake Of clear virginity , be advocate For us and our distresses ! This good deed Shall rase you , out of the Book of Trespasses , All you are ...
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Page 81 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 80 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 81 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 121 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Page 43 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 4 - The Two Noble Kinsmen: Presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants, with great applause: Written by the memorable Worthies of their time; Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare. Gent.
Page 52 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 35 - The sweet embraces of a loving wife, Loaden with kisses, arm'd with thousand Cupids, Shall never clasp our necks ; no issue know us; No figures of ourselves shall we e'er see, To glad our age, and like young eagles teach them Boldly to gaze against bright arms, and say, Remember what your fathers were, and conquer!
Page 46 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. Do you see this ? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there ! [Dies.
Page 35 - O sacred, shadowy, cold, and constant queen, Abandoner of revels, mute, contemplative, Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure As wind-fann'd snow, who to thy female knights 140 Allow'st no more blood than will make a blush, Which is their order's robe...