Macbeth, and King Richard the Third: An Essay, in Answer to Remarks on Some of the Characters of Shakspeare |
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... occasion to mourn your loss ! With the most profound respect , and the most grateful affection , I am , My Lord Duke , Your Grace's devoted servant , JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE . June 17 , 1817 . Great Russell Street , Bloomsbury Square . b འ ...
... occasion to mourn your loss ! With the most profound respect , and the most grateful affection , I am , My Lord Duke , Your Grace's devoted servant , JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE . June 17 , 1817 . Great Russell Street , Bloomsbury Square . b འ ...
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... occasion requires , to stifle and subdue it . ” * The attempt to controvert this as- sertion , and those that are subse- quently founded upon it , falls easily under three heads ; namely , an exhi- bition of the character of Macbeth ...
... occasion requires , to stifle and subdue it . ” * The attempt to controvert this as- sertion , and those that are subse- quently founded upon it , falls easily under three heads ; namely , an exhi- bition of the character of Macbeth ...
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... occasion for stopping at all ; -if these commentators had only figured to themselves the Caledonian warrior , burying his dirk in the bowels of Macdonwald and ripping up the body of the inhuman rebel , they would , perhaps , have seen ...
... occasion for stopping at all ; -if these commentators had only figured to themselves the Caledonian warrior , burying his dirk in the bowels of Macdonwald and ripping up the body of the inhuman rebel , they would , perhaps , have seen ...
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... occasions , Even- handed justice might commend the ingredients of his poison'd chalice to his own lips : -But the asperities of his commentary shall not be retaliated here . ture , the trophies of a second , and more 27 ]
... occasions , Even- handed justice might commend the ingredients of his poison'd chalice to his own lips : -But the asperities of his commentary shall not be retaliated here . ture , the trophies of a second , and more 27 ]
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... occasion , from that very event , to sound him on the hope that his children would be elevated to the throne of Scotland , a hope he now might reasonably entertain , -he awfully replies : — " Tis strange ! And oftentimes , to win us to ...
... occasion , from that very event , to sound him on the hope that his children would be elevated to the throne of Scotland , a hope he now might reasonably entertain , -he awfully replies : — " Tis strange ! And oftentimes , to win us to ...
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Page 146 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 117 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 121 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 65 - Reigns that which would be fear'd : 'tis much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Page 168 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 39 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o...
Page 141 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 51 - A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Page 45 - 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...
Page 126 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.