An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - 206 páginas |
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... thou art As glorious to this sight , being o'er my head As is a winged messenger from heaven To the upturn'd wond'ring eyes of mortals When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds , And sails upon the bosom of the air . " " If the reader ...
... thou art As glorious to this sight , being o'er my head As is a winged messenger from heaven To the upturn'd wond'ring eyes of mortals When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds , And sails upon the bosom of the air . " " If the reader ...
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... thou Romeo ? In the next line to this her love breaks out . She can no longer withhold even telling herself of it , and in the very second line that she speaks , she accordingly with solicitous fondness says , Deny thy father , and ...
... thou Romeo ? In the next line to this her love breaks out . She can no longer withhold even telling herself of it , and in the very second line that she speaks , she accordingly with solicitous fondness says , Deny thy father , and ...
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... Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face , Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek , For that which thou hast heard me speak to night . Fain would I dwell on form ; fain , fain deny What I have spoke ; but farewell compliment ...
... Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face , Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek , For that which thou hast heard me speak to night . Fain would I dwell on form ; fain , fain deny What I have spoke ; but farewell compliment ...
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... thou wilt ; swear by thy gracious self , Which is the god of my idolatry , And I'll believe thee . sweet , good night ! Rom . Oh ! wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied ? Jul . What satisfaction can'st thou have to night ? Rom . Th ...
... thou wilt ; swear by thy gracious self , Which is the god of my idolatry , And I'll believe thee . sweet , good night ! Rom . Oh ! wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied ? Jul . What satisfaction can'st thou have to night ? Rom . Th ...
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... thou mean'st not well , I do beseech thee To cease thy suit , and leave me to my grief . A thousand times good night . She enters again . Hist ! Romeo , Hist ! Oh for a falc'ner's voice To lure this tassel - gentle back again- Bondage ...
... thou mean'st not well , I do beseech thee To cease thy suit , and leave me to my grief . A thousand times good night . She enters again . Hist ! Romeo , Hist ! Oh for a falc'ner's voice To lure this tassel - gentle back again- Bondage ...
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Página 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Página 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Página 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Página 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Página 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Página 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Página 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Página 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.