Studies of ShakspereG. Routledge, 1868 - 560 pages |
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... poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under the direction of Malone from the only printed copy , and that an imperfect one , which is supposed to exist . In the page ...
... poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under the direction of Malone from the only printed copy , and that an imperfect one , which is supposed to exist . In the page ...
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... poetical poverty of the early stage . In the representation , the action would of course be exciting , but the dialogue which accompanies it is beyond comparison bald and meaningless . The audience was , however , compensated by ...
... poetical poverty of the early stage . In the representation , the action would of course be exciting , but the dialogue which accompanies it is beyond comparison bald and meaningless . The audience was , however , compensated by ...
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... poetical minds , labouring , however , upon false principles . This drama was acted before Queen Elizabeth as early as 1562. Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , its joint author with Thomas Norton , was a man of real genius ; yet the ...
... poetical minds , labouring , however , upon false principles . This drama was acted before Queen Elizabeth as early as 1562. Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , its joint author with Thomas Norton , was a man of real genius ; yet the ...
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... poetical language , while at the same time he shakes out all his school - learning on every possible occasion . " To reduce this very just account of the play to elementary criticism , Tieck says , first , that the action CHAP . V. ] 25 ...
... poetical language , while at the same time he shakes out all his school - learning on every possible occasion . " To reduce this very just account of the play to elementary criticism , Tieck says , first , that the action CHAP . V. ] 25 ...
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... poetical tones are single and gentle spring - strous error . Such a drama is this ' Titus . ' breathings ; with which we are well pleased , but which pass over us almost trackless . A very different combat has the higher and | richer ...
... poetical tones are single and gentle spring - strous error . Such a drama is this ' Titus . ' breathings ; with which we are well pleased , but which pass over us almost trackless . A very different combat has the higher and | richer ...
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Page 478 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 235 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 490 - Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers
Page 494 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 497 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 161 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 496 - Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 103 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 106 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page 470 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...