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... present chapter will | Contents offer some observations on the more remarkable among Chapter . the dramatists whose literary activity began in the closing years of Queen Elisabeth's reign , and was therefore to some extent contemporary ...
... present chapter will | Contents offer some observations on the more remarkable among Chapter . the dramatists whose literary activity began in the closing years of Queen Elisabeth's reign , and was therefore to some extent contemporary ...
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... present generation , Mr. Sothern's Lord Dundreary . There are points in which the resemblance is ludicrously close . Thus above all Monsieur d'Olive's invariable approval of any facetious remark offered by an interlocutor : Ever good i ...
... present generation , Mr. Sothern's Lord Dundreary . There are points in which the resemblance is ludicrously close . Thus above all Monsieur d'Olive's invariable approval of any facetious remark offered by an interlocutor : Ever good i ...
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... present occasion to have spared . Strozza's speeches - with one notable exception - rise little above a merely rhetorical level ; and though there is a startling passionateness in the principal I refer to the remarkable passage in which ...
... present occasion to have spared . Strozza's speeches - with one notable exception - rise little above a merely rhetorical level ; and though there is a startling passionateness in the principal I refer to the remarkable passage in which ...
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... present day1 . With Shirley , the last of the more noteworthy among the pre - Restoration dramatists , Chapman combined in the production of two plays , a tragedy and a comedy . The latter , called The Ball ( licensed 1632 , printed ...
... present day1 . With Shirley , the last of the more noteworthy among the pre - Restoration dramatists , Chapman combined in the production of two plays , a tragedy and a comedy . The latter , called The Ball ( licensed 1632 , printed ...
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... present- ment by the players , who spoil good plays as ' ill nurses ' spoil the children of a beautiful woman . ' This play may have come down to us in an imperfect and mutilated form ; but in any case it is with a pitiful sense of ...
... present- ment by the players , who spoil good plays as ' ill nurses ' spoil the children of a beautiful woman . ' This play may have come down to us in an imperfect and mutilated form ; but in any case it is with a pitiful sense of ...
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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.