Shakespeare's WorkmanshipT. Fisher Unwin, 1919 - 368 pages |
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... passing misogyny - Hamlet's affected madness before fools - His moral scrupulousness - A self - explanatory soliloquy · 179-200 CHAPTER X HAMLET III " " The simple secret of the critics - Coleridge and another- " It is we who are Hamlet ...
... passing misogyny - Hamlet's affected madness before fools - His moral scrupulousness - A self - explanatory soliloquy · 179-200 CHAPTER X HAMLET III " " The simple secret of the critics - Coleridge and another- " It is we who are Hamlet ...
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... pass , then , from the conditions under which he built his plays to the material out of which he had to build this ... passing through the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly , in the middes of a launde , there met them 3 women in strange ...
... pass , then , from the conditions under which he built his plays to the material out of which he had to build this ... passing through the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly , in the middes of a launde , there met them 3 women in strange ...
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... course , must it be that of a bad man passing from adversity to prosperity : for that is not tragedy at all , but the perversion of tragedy , and revolts the moral sense . ( 3 ) Nor , again , should it exhibit 30 Shakespeare's Workmanship.
... course , must it be that of a bad man passing from adversity to prosperity : for that is not tragedy at all , but the perversion of tragedy , and revolts the moral sense . ( 3 ) Nor , again , should it exhibit 30 Shakespeare's Workmanship.
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... . Now let us return to Holinshed . The Chronicle relates that Macbeth and Banquo " went sporting by the way together without other companie save only themselves , passing the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly 44 Shakespeare's Workmanship.
... . Now let us return to Holinshed . The Chronicle relates that Macbeth and Banquo " went sporting by the way together without other companie save only themselves , passing the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly 44 Shakespeare's Workmanship.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. themselves , passing the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly , in the middes of a launde there met them 3 women in strange and ferly apparell , resembling crea- tures of an elder world " and it adds that by common ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. themselves , passing the woodes and fieldes , when sodenly , in the middes of a launde there met them 3 women in strange and ferly apparell , resembling crea- tures of an elder world " and it adds that by common ...
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Page 194 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me...
Page 321 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 173 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember/ why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on...
Page 196 - The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
Page 197 - As made the things more rich : their perfume lost, Take these again ; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Page 124 - Good morrow, fool,' quoth I : ' No, sir,' quoth he, ' Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. ' And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ' It is ten o'clock : Thus may we see...
Page 126 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 145 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? no. Doth he hear it ? no. 'Tis insensible, then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? no. Why ? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
Page 321 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 197 - You should not have believed me ; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it ; I loved you not.