Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1876 - English drama |
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... living products of a rich experience playing in manifold forms and colours , of a clear mind , and of a feeling as pure as it is intense , and rising to enthusiasm for all things beautiful , good , and true - in short , a view of life ...
... living products of a rich experience playing in manifold forms and colours , of a clear mind , and of a feeling as pure as it is intense , and rising to enthusiasm for all things beautiful , good , and true - in short , a view of life ...
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... living poet , were he to be asked , would — in spite of the realism to which he perhaps inclines - support me when say that he too has his own view of life , which not only forms the basis of his poems , but is also expressed in his ...
... living poet , were he to be asked , would — in spite of the realism to which he perhaps inclines - support me when say that he too has his own view of life , which not only forms the basis of his poems , but is also expressed in his ...
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... living entirely for the world . Although Conscience does indeed lead him to a better path , folly soon entices him from it , and he proceeds further along the road to destruction , till in the end , as an old man , miserable , decrepit ...
... living entirely for the world . Although Conscience does indeed lead him to a better path , folly soon entices him from it , and he proceeds further along the road to destruction , till in the end , as an old man , miserable , decrepit ...
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... living personality against the decaying institutions of the Middle Ages , against the feudal state and hierarchy , as indeed against the tyrannical system of corporations which had become mechanical , and in which the individual living ...
... living personality against the decaying institutions of the Middle Ages , against the feudal state and hierarchy , as indeed against the tyrannical system of corporations which had become mechanical , and in which the individual living ...
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... living man was only employed as the lifeless part of a machine . Henry VIII . was a monarch who stood as man and king at the extreme point of this contrast ; following entirely his own caprices and personal desires , he spared neither ...
... living man was only employed as the lifeless part of a machine . Henry VIII . was a monarch who stood as man and king at the extreme point of this contrast ; following entirely his own caprices and personal desires , he spared neither ...
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Page 214 - O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 238 - TWO loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Page 193 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 417 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice : then must you speak Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well...
Page 474 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous ; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Page 215 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry: As, to behold desert a beggar born. And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.
Page 226 - Why is my verse so barren of new pride ? So far from variation or quick change ? Why, with the time, do I not glance aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange ? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed...
Page 472 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 227 - tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 232 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such, As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. 110 Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...