Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1817 - 352 pages |
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Page 35
... live - long day with patient expectation , To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome : And when you saw his chariot but appear , Have you not made an universal shout , That Tyber trembled underneath his banks To hear the replication ...
... live - long day with patient expectation , To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome : And when you saw his chariot but appear , Have you not made an universal shout , That Tyber trembled underneath his banks To hear the replication ...
Page 37
... him ; let him not die : For he will live , and laugh at this hereafter . " They were in the wrong ; and Cassius was right . The honest manliness of Brutus is however sufficient to find out the unfitness of Cicero to be JULIUS CÆSAR . 37.
... him ; let him not die : For he will live , and laugh at this hereafter . " They were in the wrong ; and Cassius was right . The honest manliness of Brutus is however sufficient to find out the unfitness of Cicero to be JULIUS CÆSAR . 37.
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... live in all the spight Of wreakful heav'n , whose bare unhoused trunks , To the conflicting elements expos'd , Answer mere nature , bid them flatter thee . " The manners are every where preserved with distinct truth . The poet and ...
... live in all the spight Of wreakful heav'n , whose bare unhoused trunks , To the conflicting elements expos'd , Answer mere nature , bid them flatter thee . " The manners are every where preserved with distinct truth . The poet and ...
Page 66
... live ! -Plagues , incident to men , Your potent and infectious fevers heap On Athens , ripe for stroke ! Thou cold sciatica , Cripple our senators , that their limbs may halt As lamely as their manners ! Lust and liberty Creep in the ...
... live ! -Plagues , incident to men , Your potent and infectious fevers heap On Athens , ripe for stroke ! Thou cold sciatica , Cripple our senators , that their limbs may halt As lamely as their manners ! Lust and liberty Creep in the ...
Page 78
... they fight more valiantly who know the force of the enemy , than such as have never proved it . And if it be so that thou ' dare not , and that thou art weary to prove fortune any ' more , then am I also weary to live 78 CORIOLANUS .
... they fight more valiantly who know the force of the enemy , than such as have never proved it . And if it be so that thou ' dare not , and that thou art weary to prove fortune any ' more , then am I also weary to live 78 CORIOLANUS .
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Page 174 - 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 222 - 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, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Page 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 259 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 151 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Page 352 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...