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... thou art dead , and I will kill thee , and love thee after , ' is a sentiment characteristic of , and fit only to be uttered by a Moor . " But it was not enough for Shakspeare to have formed his characters with the most perfect truth ...
... thou art dead , and I will kill thee , and love thee after , ' is a sentiment characteristic of , and fit only to be uttered by a Moor . " But it was not enough for Shakspeare to have formed his characters with the most perfect truth ...
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... thou- sand instances might be given of the intimate knowledge that Shakspeare had of facts . I shall mention only one . I do not say that he gives a good account of the Salic law , though a much HIS METHOD . 147 POLITANA.
... thou- sand instances might be given of the intimate knowledge that Shakspeare had of facts . I shall mention only one . I do not say that he gives a good account of the Salic law , though a much HIS METHOD . 147 POLITANA.
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... thou- sand times more full of fancy , and imagery , and splendor , than those who , for the sake of such qualities , have shrunk back from the delineation of character or passion , and declined the discussion of human duties and cares ...
... thou- sand times more full of fancy , and imagery , and splendor , than those who , for the sake of such qualities , have shrunk back from the delineation of character or passion , and declined the discussion of human duties and cares ...
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... thou point'st out ? will the cold brook , Candied with ice , caudle thy morning taste To cure thine o'er - night's surfeit ? No one but Shakspeare would have thought of putting this noble picture into the taunting address of a snappish ...
... thou point'st out ? will the cold brook , Candied with ice , caudle thy morning taste To cure thine o'er - night's surfeit ? No one but Shakspeare would have thought of putting this noble picture into the taunting address of a snappish ...
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... thou hast one to show , To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe . He was not of an age , but for all time ; - Nature herself was proud of his designs , And joy'd to wear the dressing of his lines ; Which were so richly spun , and woven ...
... thou hast one to show , To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe . He was not of an age , but for all time ; - Nature herself was proud of his designs , And joy'd to wear the dressing of his lines ; Which were so richly spun , and woven ...
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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...