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... situation except to make Abrahen kill Caropia and himself , and Caropia , foiled once more in her ambition , in the moment of her own death kill Abilqualit . This unpleasant plot and the extremely unlovely cha- racter of the heroine ...
... situation except to make Abrahen kill Caropia and himself , and Caropia , foiled once more in her ambition , in the moment of her own death kill Abilqualit . This unpleasant plot and the extremely unlovely cha- racter of the heroine ...
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... situation is very charmingly worked out ; not quite so good is the cure of Martia , brought about by producing in her a fear of unfaithfulness on the part of her repentant husband , to save whom from shame she at last abandons her ...
... situation is very charmingly worked out ; not quite so good is the cure of Martia , brought about by producing in her a fear of unfaithfulness on the part of her repentant husband , to save whom from shame she at last abandons her ...
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... situation , the last element in which must surely have seemed hideous on the stage , is finally solved by a deus ex ... situations required to be seconded by unusual labour in composition ; and this , strange to say , he seems on the ...
... situation , the last element in which must surely have seemed hideous on the stage , is finally solved by a deus ex ... situations required to be seconded by unusual labour in composition ; and this , strange to say , he seems on the ...
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... situation with a comic action is certainly not pleasant to read . The story was borrowed by Chapman from that of the Matron of Ephesus in the Satyricon of Petronius . 1 Besides a passage in ridicule of the inevitable Spanish Tragedy ...
... situation with a comic action is certainly not pleasant to read . The story was borrowed by Chapman from that of the Matron of Ephesus in the Satyricon of Petronius . 1 Besides a passage in ridicule of the inevitable Spanish Tragedy ...
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... situation , though to that of the progress of action he is not always sufficiently alive . Though he is too fond of indulging a tendency to rhetoric , I cannot agree with those critics who have considered him prone to bombast , the ...
... situation , though to that of the progress of action he is not always sufficiently alive . Though he is too fond of indulging a tendency to rhetoric , I cannot agree with those critics who have considered him prone to bombast , the ...
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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.