The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots and characters; and essays on the ancient theatres and theatrical usages |
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... spirit burnt within him which not the chil- ling influence of poverty could repress , nor the degradation of his situation long obscure , and the actor of mediocrity aspired to distinction as a writer for the stage . Among the dramas ...
... spirit burnt within him which not the chil- ling influence of poverty could repress , nor the degradation of his situation long obscure , and the actor of mediocrity aspired to distinction as a writer for the stage . Among the dramas ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... spirit , against her will , In the vile prison of afflicted breath : ” — The whole of the part is Shakspeare's from the striking apostrophe to death * , to Constance's beautiful detail of her inducements for doating upon grief . This is ...
... spirit , against her will , In the vile prison of afflicted breath : ” — The whole of the part is Shakspeare's from the striking apostrophe to death * , to Constance's beautiful detail of her inducements for doating upon grief . This is ...
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... spirit and concise- ness . is it said— Austria . Falcon . " What the devil art thou ? " One that will play the devil , sir , with you , An ' a may catch your hide and you alone . You are the hare of whom the proverb goes , Whose valour ...
... spirit and concise- ness . is it said— Austria . Falcon . " What the devil art thou ? " One that will play the devil , sir , with you , An ' a may catch your hide and you alone . You are the hare of whom the proverb goes , Whose valour ...
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... spirit ; and not satisfied with all these various qualities , Shak- speare has added to his character a vein of dry sarcastic humour . For the idea of bringing Henry the Fifth on the stage in the twofold character of a dissolute young ...
... spirit ; and not satisfied with all these various qualities , Shak- speare has added to his character a vein of dry sarcastic humour . For the idea of bringing Henry the Fifth on the stage in the twofold character of a dissolute young ...
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Page 193 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night', Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 159 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 65 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 234 - In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Page 260 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Page 269 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 254 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 153 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...