Shakespeare's Life and WorkMacmillan, 1900 - 231 pages |
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... Macbeth · · 123 1609 Antony and Cleopatra 128 Coriolanus . . 128 1607 King Lear . • 126 • XIII The placid temper of the latest plays 1610 Cymbeline 1611 A Winter's Tale 1611 The Tempest Fanciful interpretations of The Tempest The lost ...
... Macbeth · · 123 1609 Antony and Cleopatra 128 Coriolanus . . 128 1607 King Lear . • 126 • XIII The placid temper of the latest plays 1610 Cymbeline 1611 A Winter's Tale 1611 The Tempest Fanciful interpretations of The Tempest The lost ...
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... Macbeth ' to the ' nimble ' but ' sweet ' climate of Inver- ness This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses ( Macbeth , 1. vi . 1–6 ) — In land . and the vivid impression the ...
... Macbeth ' to the ' nimble ' but ' sweet ' climate of Inver- ness This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses ( Macbeth , 1. vi . 1–6 ) — In land . and the vivid impression the ...
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... Macbeth . in 1605 and completed next year , Shakespeare employed a setting wholly in harmony with the accession of a ... Macbeth's vision of kings who carry ' twofold balls and treble sceptres ' ( IV . i . 20 ) plainly adverted to the ...
... Macbeth . in 1605 and completed next year , Shakespeare employed a setting wholly in harmony with the accession of a ... Macbeth's vision of kings who carry ' twofold balls and treble sceptres ' ( IV . i . 20 ) plainly adverted to the ...
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... Macbeth and his wife depicted with the utmost subtlety and insight . In three points ' Macbeth ' differs somewhat from others of Shake- speare's productions in the great class of literature to which it belongs . The interweaving with ...
... Macbeth and his wife depicted with the utmost subtlety and insight . In three points ' Macbeth ' differs somewhat from others of Shake- speare's productions in the great class of literature to which it belongs . The interweaving with ...
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... Macbeth , ' the tragedy of ' King Lear ' was mainly founded on Holinshed's ' Chronicle . ' The leading theme had been dramatised as early as 1593 , but Shakespeare's attention was no doubt directed to it by the publication of a crude ...
... Macbeth , ' the tragedy of ' King Lear ' was mainly founded on Holinshed's ' Chronicle . ' The leading theme had been dramatised as early as 1593 , but Shakespeare's attention was no doubt directed to it by the publication of a crude ...
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Page 63 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours ; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Page 137 - True/ representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII., which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like ; sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 88 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 72 - TO THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF THESE INSUING SONNETS MR. WH ALL HAPPINESSE AND THAT ETERNITIE PROMISED BY OUR EVER-LIVING POET WISHETH THE WELL-WISHING ADVENTURER IN SETTING FORTH TT...
Page 51 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 185 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Page 69 - And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 86 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 89 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare : witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Page 16 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and among them some, that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him with them more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.