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... politics of his times which do honour to his character as well as his intellect . On a subsequent occasion he seems to have given offence to the French ambassador by a scene introduced into his play of Byron's Conspiracy ( 1608 ) ; but ...
... politics of his times which do honour to his character as well as his intellect . On a subsequent occasion he seems to have given offence to the French ambassador by a scene introduced into his play of Byron's Conspiracy ( 1608 ) ; but ...
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... political seer ; but he understood the meaning of history ; he perceived the real difference between despotism and the rule of law ; he could tell the truth to Kings who ' strained past right , for their right , ' and could remind ...
... political seer ; but he understood the meaning of history ; he perceived the real difference between despotism and the rule of law ; he could tell the truth to Kings who ' strained past right , for their right , ' and could remind ...
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... politics of the time of its pro- duction . The details concerning the Electoral College might , as Elze shows , easily have been taken from English CHAPMAN'S ALPHONSUS AND REVENGE FOR HONOUR . 199 books - 18 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
... politics of the time of its pro- duction . The details concerning the Electoral College might , as Elze shows , easily have been taken from English CHAPMAN'S ALPHONSUS AND REVENGE FOR HONOUR . 199 books - 18 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
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... political as well as social details - still less can he have intended a political double- meaning . The resemblance between the condition of Ger- many during the Interregnum and that at the beginning of the Thirty Years ' War was in ...
... political as well as social details - still less can he have intended a political double- meaning . The resemblance between the condition of Ger- many during the Interregnum and that at the beginning of the Thirty Years ' War was in ...
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... political philosophy which must have sounded strange in the ears of any courtier of King James who heard it : " And what's a Prince ? Had all been virtuous men , There never had been Prince upon the earth , And so no subject ; all men ...
... political philosophy which must have sounded strange in the ears of any courtier of King James who heard it : " And what's a Prince ? Had all been virtuous men , There never had been Prince upon the earth , And so no subject ; all men ...
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Page 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Page 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Page 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.