The Women of ShakespeareG.P. Putnam, 1895 - 384 pages |
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... relation their common memories . He wishes to bring before them the principal female characters created by the poet , as they live in the memory of each one , and he will have attained his aim if those who have read his book are ...
... relation their common memories . He wishes to bring before them the principal female characters created by the poet , as they live in the memory of each one , and he will have attained his aim if those who have read his book are ...
Page xiii
... relations in which certain classes and characters stand to each other , as has been attributed to him by one of the most renowned Shakespearian commentators ? Is it conceivable that the poet had in view , in such a work , pur- posely ...
... relations in which certain classes and characters stand to each other , as has been attributed to him by one of the most renowned Shakespearian commentators ? Is it conceivable that the poet had in view , in such a work , pur- posely ...
Page xiv
... relation to this fundamental idea , as has been so often tried with Shakespeare and with other dramatists ; and this is particularly the case with Shakespeare . The manner in which he has put together the material of his dramas is quite ...
... relation to this fundamental idea , as has been so often tried with Shakespeare and with other dramatists ; and this is particularly the case with Shakespeare . The manner in which he has put together the material of his dramas is quite ...
Page xvi
... relation to a right understanding of the times to which they belong . Our second task will be the description of the rise and development of dramatic poetry prior to Shakespeare's appearance , for without some knowledge of the dramatic ...
... relation to a right understanding of the times to which they belong . Our second task will be the description of the rise and development of dramatic poetry prior to Shakespeare's appearance , for without some knowledge of the dramatic ...
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... relation to the life and spirit of his time . An exhaustive idea of the personality and power of this poet is not obtained by taking into account his skill in versification and the great variety of his characters , which shake us to our ...
... relation to the life and spirit of his time . An exhaustive idea of the personality and power of this poet is not obtained by taking into account his skill in versification and the great variety of his characters , which shake us to our ...
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Page 186 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down (The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 291 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say, They love you, all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 220 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 280 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse; which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 10 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear...
Page 279 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels...
Page 38 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 307 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once or twice I was about to speak, and tell him plainly The self-same sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.
Page 228 - Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia!
Page 64 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.