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A breach , however , did ensue between the bard and his good spirit ; yet the pangs of separation soon proved intolerable ; and , in defiance of his jealousies and doubts , Shakspeare took back his friend to his bosom , with an ...
A breach , however , did ensue between the bard and his good spirit ; yet the pangs of separation soon proved intolerable ; and , in defiance of his jealousies and doubts , Shakspeare took back his friend to his bosom , with an ...
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... to the elaborate species of metre he has employed , we shall surely feel that it is impossible to praise his productions too highly . venerable spirit of antiquity , and conjures up before us all the grandeur and glory of old Rome .
... to the elaborate species of metre he has employed , we shall surely feel that it is impossible to praise his productions too highly . venerable spirit of antiquity , and conjures up before us all the grandeur and glory of old Rome .
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His spirit , but seems to breathe the sentiments of a Pierce Pennilesse is written with infinite fire and world . Towards the close of his days , he seems man in a paroxysm of rage against the whole called Christ's Tears over Jerusalem ...
His spirit , but seems to breathe the sentiments of a Pierce Pennilesse is written with infinite fire and world . Towards the close of his days , he seems man in a paroxysm of rage against the whole called Christ's Tears over Jerusalem ...
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You have seen a Hamlet . perhaps , who , on the first appearance of his father's spirit , has thrown himself into all the straining vociferations requisite to express rage and fary , and the house has thundered with applanse , though ...
You have seen a Hamlet . perhaps , who , on the first appearance of his father's spirit , has thrown himself into all the straining vociferations requisite to express rage and fary , and the house has thundered with applanse , though ...
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Spirits . Nymphs , Reapers , Other Spirits attending on Prospero . thinks , he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good fate , to his hanging ! make the rope of his destiny our cable ...
Spirits . Nymphs , Reapers , Other Spirits attending on Prospero . thinks , he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good fate , to his hanging ! make the rope of his destiny our cable ...
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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 104 - 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 115 - ... 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 107 - 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...
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| Title | The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | William Harvey, Robert Seymour, Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen |
| Contributor | Sherwood and Co. (London) |
| Publisher | proprietors of the "London stage", 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 896 pages |
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