The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 7 |
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... play , entitled The True Chronicle Hystorie of Leire , King of England , and his Three Daughters , Gonorill , Ragan , and Cordella ; 1605. A play with that title was entered on the Stationers ' books by Edward White , May 14 , 1594 ...
... play , entitled The True Chronicle Hystorie of Leire , King of England , and his Three Daughters , Gonorill , Ragan , and Cordella ; 1605. A play with that title was entered on the Stationers ' books by Edward White , May 14 , 1594 ...
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... played , during the preceding Christmas , before his majesty at Whitehall . Malone places the date of the composition in ... play ; but it is particularly visible in the delineation of the vicious personages of the drama ; the parts of ...
... played , during the preceding Christmas , before his majesty at Whitehall . Malone places the date of the composition in ... play ; but it is particularly visible in the delineation of the vicious personages of the drama ; the parts of ...
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... play exhibit the manners and the feelings of civilization , and are of that mixed fabric which can alone display a just portraiture of the nature and composition of our species . " The characters of Cordelia and Edgar , it is true ...
... play exhibit the manners and the feelings of civilization , and are of that mixed fabric which can alone display a just portraiture of the nature and composition of our species . " The characters of Cordelia and Edgar , it is true ...
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... play , as in that of Hamlet , finely discriminated between real and assumed insanity ; Edgar , amidst all the wild imagery which his imagination has accumulated , never touching on the true source of his misery ; whilst Lear , on the ...
... play , as in that of Hamlet , finely discriminated between real and assumed insanity ; Edgar , amidst all the wild imagery which his imagination has accumulated , never touching on the true source of his misery ; whilst Lear , on the ...
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... play is beyond all art , as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love - scenes , and a happy ending . It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter , she must shine as a lover too . Fate has put his hook ...
... play is beyond all art , as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love - scenes , and a happy ending . It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter , she must shine as a lover too . Fate has put his hook ...
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Page 268 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 366 - 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, Whereof by parcels...
Page 285 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 239 - I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 12 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Page 53 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger ! O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 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.
Page 177 - Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 157 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 110 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 236 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres...