Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 2Baker and Scribner, 1848 - Dramatists, English |
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... awful yet so gentle , we may truly say of him , " He sits ' mongst men like a descended god : He hath a kind of honour sets him off , More than a mortal seeming . " A princely hermit equally vast in mind and pure in heart , whatever ...
... awful yet so gentle , we may truly say of him , " He sits ' mongst men like a descended god : He hath a kind of honour sets him off , More than a mortal seeming . " A princely hermit equally vast in mind and pure in heart , whatever ...
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... Awful as is their fate , they seem pitiable only in their lives , and enviable in their death ; for the tomb does not extinguish , it in- shrines the beauty of their love , and therein is far kinder to them than life would be . And who ...
... Awful as is their fate , they seem pitiable only in their lives , and enviable in their death ; for the tomb does not extinguish , it in- shrines the beauty of their love , and therein is far kinder to them than life would be . And who ...
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... awful disclosures and still more I injunctions , confirming the suspicion of his uncle's chery and implicating his mother in the crime , com- plete his desolation of mind . But this is not all : The garden of his 94 LECTURES ON SHAKSPEARE .
... awful disclosures and still more I injunctions , confirming the suspicion of his uncle's chery and implicating his mother in the crime , com- plete his desolation of mind . But this is not all : The garden of his 94 LECTURES ON SHAKSPEARE .
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... awful words , " Remember me . " But amid these accu- mulated agonies , and though suffering all that he can suffer save remorse and self - reproach , he yet retains all his original integrity and uprightness of soul , and his quick ...
... awful words , " Remember me . " But amid these accu- mulated agonies , and though suffering all that he can suffer save remorse and self - reproach , he yet retains all his original integrity and uprightness of soul , and his quick ...
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... awful occasion sprung from merry feelings ; on the contrary , it must have sprung , one would think , from the other extreme of feeling - a man smiling and play- ing from excess of anguish and terror . In like manner Hamlet's mental ...
... awful occasion sprung from merry feelings ; on the contrary , it must have sprung , one would think , from the other extreme of feeling - a man smiling and play- ing from excess of anguish and terror . In like manner Hamlet's mental ...
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Page 95 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 13 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Page 25 - I have broke your hest ] to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed, the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Page 219 - O, thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet. Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 157 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 134 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 160 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 154 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair...
Page 21 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 14 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the...