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... mind as his best asylum ; and directing his fugitive steps to the metropolis , he became a player , and in the end , a writer for the stage . The tale of Shakspeare's at- tending at the Globe , on his first arrival in London , to take ...
... mind as his best asylum ; and directing his fugitive steps to the metropolis , he became a player , and in the end , a writer for the stage . The tale of Shakspeare's at- tending at the Globe , on his first arrival in London , to take ...
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... mind , and free from the guilt of Duncan's murder . There is another passage in the same play respecting the efficacy of the royal touch in curing the evil , highly complimentary , and this delicate praise richly merited the honour it ...
... mind , and free from the guilt of Duncan's murder . There is another passage in the same play respecting the efficacy of the royal touch in curing the evil , highly complimentary , and this delicate praise richly merited the honour it ...
Page xxiv
... mind , and gloriously have they been improved in the play before us . Shakspeare , however , has blackened the character of Richard much beyond the truth of history . Lady Anne was not married , but merely betrothed , to Edward , the ...
... mind , and gloriously have they been improved in the play before us . Shakspeare , however , has blackened the character of Richard much beyond the truth of history . Lady Anne was not married , but merely betrothed , to Edward , the ...
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... mind , authoritie , and friends . Yet on the other side , also , he trusted his good - nature and faire conditions ; for intelligence being brought one day , that Antonius and Dolabella did conspire against him ; he answered , that ...
... mind , authoritie , and friends . Yet on the other side , also , he trusted his good - nature and faire conditions ; for intelligence being brought one day , that Antonius and Dolabella did conspire against him ; he answered , that ...
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... mind . Goneril's ingratitude . Even Iachimo , however detestable his baseness , is no common - place villain . But all that is sublime and terrible in Shak- speare's Lear is original ; his fearful astonishment , tions , when he pours ...
... mind . Goneril's ingratitude . Even Iachimo , however detestable his baseness , is no common - place villain . But all that is sublime and terrible in Shak- speare's Lear is original ; his fearful astonishment , tions , when he pours ...
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Page 152 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 304 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 265 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 102 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 292 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 113 - ... the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 105 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 155 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page lx - Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism...