Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakesperian Literature, Volume 2

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Charlotte Endymion Porter
L. Scott Publishing Company, 1885 - 600 páginas
With v. 3-5 were issued "Selected reprints. A series of Shakspeare illustrations forming supplements to Shakspeariana."

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Página 24 - O Proserpina! For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon ! Daffodils That come before the swallow dares and take The winds of March with beauty; violets (dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath); pale prim-roses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright
Página 415 - these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death,— The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns,— puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.— III, i.
Página 179 - nature makes that mean : so o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of noble race.
Página 412 - in faculty! inform and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman
Página 410 - whose charm and whose very name are poetry personified. As Ophelia says, he has a noble mind :— The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword: The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers.—
Página 209 - thought of her gallant Hotspur slain, and memory makes it tremble. Now it is Constance weeping for her Arthur, who has been overwhelmed by the opposing forces in whose midst he stood :— " Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down
Página 209 - Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form." Now it is the wretched Anne, wife of Richard of Gloster, whose stifled misery has its outbreak when she finds that she is to be
Página 362 - thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that—
Página 75 - We defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it
Página 361 - The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry " Choose we: Laertes shall be king :" Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds : " Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!

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