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... taken from Thuanus ' ( De Thou's ) Historiae sui temporis ; but the dramatist has dealt very freely with his scanty materials , which indeed in the case of the second play suggested little more than the starting - point of the action ...
... taken from Thuanus ' ( De Thou's ) Historiae sui temporis ; but the dramatist has dealt very freely with his scanty materials , which indeed in the case of the second play suggested little more than the starting - point of the action ...
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... taken from the history , and written with some real knowledge of the life , of a foreign country . There are in this tragedy , apart from the knowledge of the German language which it displays , passages which could not have been ...
... taken from the history , and written with some real knowledge of the life , of a foreign country . There are in this tragedy , apart from the knowledge of the German language which it displays , passages which could not have been ...
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... of passionate Earth , Is taken up amongst her fellow Stars . ' For a longer passage of singular power of expression see St. Anne's speech at the beginning of act iii . and he effects his end very skilfully . Feigning to.
... of passionate Earth , Is taken up amongst her fellow Stars . ' For a longer passage of singular power of expression see St. Anne's speech at the beginning of act iii . and he effects his end very skilfully . Feigning to.
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... taken altogether would have of themselves left our drama much in the state in which they found it . Undoubtedly , in con- sidering the plays with which Dekker's name is associated , one is in many cases hampered by the difficulty of ...
... taken altogether would have of themselves left our drama much in the state in which they found it . Undoubtedly , in con- sidering the plays with which Dekker's name is associated , one is in many cases hampered by the difficulty of ...
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... taken no part in the offence committed , but was in some way associated with the composition or production of the play containing it3 . In 1605 some encomiastic verses by Marston were prefixed to Jonson's Sejanus . Whether or not ...
... taken no part in the offence committed , but was in some way associated with the composition or production of the play containing it3 . In 1605 some encomiastic verses by Marston were prefixed to Jonson's Sejanus . Whether or not ...
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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.