The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Charles Whittingham, 1826 |
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... heart , and to hold " in sweet captivity " a mind of the very highest order . No charge is intimated against the lady : but she is left in Stratford by her husband during his long residence in the metropolis ; and on his death , she is ...
... heart , and to hold " in sweet captivity " a mind of the very highest order . No charge is intimated against the lady : but she is left in Stratford by her husband during his long residence in the metropolis ; and on his death , she is ...
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... heart . It was impossible that he should despair ; and if he indulged in sanguine expectation , the event proved him not to be a visionary . In the course of a few years , the exile of Stratford became the associate of wits , the friend ...
... heart . It was impossible that he should despair ; and if he indulged in sanguine expectation , the event proved him not to be a visionary . In the course of a few years , the exile of Stratford became the associate of wits , the friend ...
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... hearts like theirs , would soon mature into intimacy and friendship . In the fol- lowing year ( 1594 ) Shakspeare's second poem , " The Rape of Lucrece , " was addressed by him to his noble patron in a strain of less distant timidity ...
... hearts like theirs , would soon mature into intimacy and friendship . In the fol- lowing year ( 1594 ) Shakspeare's second poem , " The Rape of Lucrece , " was addressed by him to his noble patron in a strain of less distant timidity ...
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... heart of their writer . But I have dwelt too long upon a topic which , in truth , is undeserving of a sylla- ble ; and if I were to linger on it any longer , for the pur- pose of exhibiting Malone's reasons for his preference of ...
... heart of their writer . But I have dwelt too long upon a topic which , in truth , is undeserving of a sylla- ble ; and if I were to linger on it any longer , for the pur- pose of exhibiting Malone's reasons for his preference of ...
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... heart ; the gentleness and benignity of his manners , we have the positive testimony of Chettle and Ben Jonson ; the former of whom seems to have been drawn , by our Poet's good and amiable qualities , from the faction of his dramatic ...
... heart ; the gentleness and benignity of his manners , we have the positive testimony of Chettle and Ben Jonson ; the former of whom seems to have been drawn , by our Poet's good and amiable qualities , from the faction of his dramatic ...
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Popular passages
Page 47 - Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 291 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 82 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 294 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 325 - O, mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 157 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired' be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Page 102 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 82 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 62 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again...
Page 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.