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... regarded as a tragedy in two parts , hardly even in the sense in which this could be said of Hieronymo and The Spanish Tragedy . The Revenge , as will be seen , differs in some respects as to treatment from its predecessor , to the ...
... regarded as a tragedy in two parts , hardly even in the sense in which this could be said of Hieronymo and The Spanish Tragedy . The Revenge , as will be seen , differs in some respects as to treatment from its predecessor , to the ...
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... regarded as merely forming a single whole . Their subject is one of much greater interest than that of Bussy d'Ambois ; and the event which forms their catastrophe being fresh within men's memories - the execution of Biron took place in ...
... regarded as merely forming a single whole . Their subject is one of much greater interest than that of Bussy d'Ambois ; and the event which forms their catastrophe being fresh within men's memories - the execution of Biron took place in ...
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... regarded as an effort at character . But already in this , the earliest of Chapman's extant plays , an occasional vein of poetic imaginativeness , finding expression in similes at once original and beautiful , will strike the reader ...
... regarded as an effort at character . But already in this , the earliest of Chapman's extant plays , an occasional vein of poetic imaginativeness , finding expression in similes at once original and beautiful , will strike the reader ...
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... regarded as one of the most re- markable of the works of our minor Elisabethan dramatists , though I am not inclined from a literary point of view to assign to it a very high eminence . This play consists of two Parts ; or rather we ...
... regarded as one of the most re- markable of the works of our minor Elisabethan dramatists , though I am not inclined from a literary point of view to assign to it a very high eminence . This play consists of two Parts ; or rather we ...
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... regarded as a high one . Either Marston was painfully aware of the limits of his powers , or the warning example in a contrary direction furnished by his adversary Jonson determined him to adopt a deprecatory attitude towards the public ...
... regarded as a high one . Either Marston was painfully aware of the limits of his powers , or the warning example in a contrary direction furnished by his adversary Jonson determined him to adopt a deprecatory attitude towards the public ...
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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.