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... Story of Amleth , from the Danish Chro- nicle of Saxo Grammaticus , for the Plot of that Tra- gedy . Being an Attempt to prove that he designed it as an indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots . " This was followed the succeeding year ...
... Story of Amleth , from the Danish Chro- nicle of Saxo Grammaticus , for the Plot of that Tra- gedy . Being an Attempt to prove that he designed it as an indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots . " This was followed the succeeding year ...
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... story , and harmonized by the same means , have yet , both in subject and execution , a peculiar character to support . " The first represents our poet in the days of his youth , on the banks of his native Avon , in the midst of rural ...
... story , and harmonized by the same means , have yet , both in subject and execution , a peculiar character to support . " The first represents our poet in the days of his youth , on the banks of his native Avon , in the midst of rural ...
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... story of Shakspeare's predatory incursions on the manor of Sir Thomas Lucy.b The greater part , however , of the labours of Mr. Skottowe are devoted to a developement of the origin of Shakspeare's dramas , and to a display of the ...
... story of Shakspeare's predatory incursions on the manor of Sir Thomas Lucy.b The greater part , however , of the labours of Mr. Skottowe are devoted to a developement of the origin of Shakspeare's dramas , and to a display of the ...
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... story of Catharine and Petruchio as a fact which had lately occurred in a gentleman's family in Lincolnshire . From which we cannot but infer that he either knew not that it formed the fable of a play in Shakspeare , but copied it from ...
... story of Catharine and Petruchio as a fact which had lately occurred in a gentleman's family in Lincolnshire . From which we cannot but infer that he either knew not that it formed the fable of a play in Shakspeare , but copied it from ...
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... perpetually before the audience . If a story lasted twenty - four hours or twenty - four years , it was equally improbable - they never attempted to impose on the senses by bringing places to men , CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS GENIUS . 77.
... perpetually before the audience . If a story lasted twenty - four hours or twenty - four years , it was equally improbable - they never attempted to impose on the senses by bringing places to men , CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS GENIUS . 77.
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Page 468 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 406 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 300 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 181 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 187 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 315 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 302 - 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.
Page 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 348 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 211 - What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...