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Page xviii
... suggest that an author is more likely to repeat himself after an interval of time has elapsed than soon after he has said striking things , which both he and the public remember as having been lately said . I am unable to see any just ...
... suggest that an author is more likely to repeat himself after an interval of time has elapsed than soon after he has said striking things , which both he and the public remember as having been lately said . I am unable to see any just ...
Page xxvi
... suggest that Shakespeare may have been acquainted with an English tale which appeared in a publication called Westward for Smelts . Both Steevens and Malone stated that this pamphlet was published in 1603 , but their accuracy has been ...
... suggest that Shakespeare may have been acquainted with an English tale which appeared in a publication called Westward for Smelts . Both Steevens and Malone stated that this pamphlet was published in 1603 , but their accuracy has been ...
Page xxix
... suggests that she shall assume a disguise . But if Westward for Smelts was not published until 1620 , some of the incidents of the tale may have been conceived under the influence of the drama as seen upon the stage . It would be out of ...
... suggests that she shall assume a disguise . But if Westward for Smelts was not published until 1620 , some of the incidents of the tale may have been conceived under the influence of the drama as seen upon the stage . It would be out of ...
Page xxxvii
... suggests to me , as another possible source , the seventh book of the translation by Fairfax of Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne ( Gerusalemme Liberata ) . The first edition of this translation appeared in 1600. Erminia , disguised in the ...
... suggests to me , as another possible source , the seventh book of the translation by Fairfax of Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne ( Gerusalemme Liberata ) . The first edition of this translation appeared in 1600. Erminia , disguised in the ...
Page xxxviii
William Shakespeare. Tasso , and hints , as Mr. Craig also suggests , for the Perdita of his Winter's Tale in Spenser's Pastorella of the sixth book of the Faerie Queene . And perhaps our fancy may have been a fact . Who can tell ? The ...
William Shakespeare. Tasso , and hints , as Mr. Craig also suggests , for the Perdita of his Winter's Tale in Spenser's Pastorella of the sixth book of the Faerie Queene . And perhaps our fancy may have been a fact . Who can tell ? The ...
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Page 145 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe, and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 138 - O, thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet. Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 91 - To work my mind, when body's work's expired. For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see; Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like...
Page 57 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 97 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 142 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweetened not thy breath.