A Handbook to the Works of William ShakespeareG. Bell, 1907 - 463 pages |
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... remarks on the character of Henry V ( p . 235 ) are based not only on Shakespeare's alternate use of the Becket tradition and the Brutus tradition - in other words , of real or assumed wildness - but also on the curious fact that the ...
... remarks on the character of Henry V ( p . 235 ) are based not only on Shakespeare's alternate use of the Becket tradition and the Brutus tradition - in other words , of real or assumed wildness - but also on the curious fact that the ...
Page x
... remarks will be limited to his tragic period , which I shall seek to clear from the charge of fatalism and pessimism . The drama , says Shakespeare , " imitates humanity " : and when we add that character and incident are idealized by ...
... remarks will be limited to his tragic period , which I shall seek to clear from the charge of fatalism and pessimism . The drama , says Shakespeare , " imitates humanity " : and when we add that character and incident are idealized by ...
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... remark , that there was a time when the phrase " eating for eating's sake " bore no reproach ; it was the time ( " Hamlet , " IV , iv , 33-35 ) when life was mostly a matter of eating . But when our faculties multiplied , eating became ...
... remark , that there was a time when the phrase " eating for eating's sake " bore no reproach ; it was the time ( " Hamlet , " IV , iv , 33-35 ) when life was mostly a matter of eating . But when our faculties multiplied , eating became ...
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... remark that in our Elizabethan literature Spender comes first , and stands alone ; after him , two authors may be separated from all the rest , and they are Shakespeare and Bacon . Of these two it may fairly be said that the former was ...
... remark that in our Elizabethan literature Spender comes first , and stands alone ; after him , two authors may be separated from all the rest , and they are Shakespeare and Bacon . Of these two it may fairly be said that the former was ...
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... remarks on the Sonnets , and takes too much from their element of personal sincerity , I am glad to withdraw it . Page 284 , line 9 , for " any " read " an . " Page 428 , line 21 , omit " ; a . Page 452 , line 8 , for " on " read " in ...
... remarks on the Sonnets , and takes too much from their element of personal sincerity , I am glad to withdraw it . Page 284 , line 9 , for " any " read " an . " Page 428 , line 21 , omit " ; a . Page 452 , line 8 , for " on " read " in ...
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Page 379 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 12 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 67 - Only, if your Honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised; and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 252 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 113 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 297 - M. William Shak-speare : His True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.
Page 373 - ... to shake All evil dreams of power — a sacred name. And when she spake, Her words did gather thunder as they ran, And as the lightning to the thunder Which follows it, riving the spirit of man, Making earth wonder, So was their meaning to her words. No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.
Page 25 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 329 - THE LATE, | And much admired Play, | Called | Pericles, Prince | of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Historie, | aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince : | As also, | The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter | MARIANA. \ As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by | his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on | the Banck-side. | By William Shakespeare. | Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are | to be sold at the signe of the Sunne...
Page 240 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.