Lectures on Dramatic LiteraturePrivately printed for James McHenry, 1873 - 228 páginas |
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2nd Witch 3rd Witch action actor admirable Æschylus Agam Agamemnon ambition Antony arms audience Banquo blood breath Brutus Cassius cauldron character child chorus Clyt Clytemnestra Creon crown daggers daughter death deed dialogue dipus drama dramatist Duncan Edip Edipus effect enters Eteocles Euripides eyes father fear feeling flesh FRANCKLIN'S Transl genius give Glamis hail Hamlet hand hast hath hear heart heaven HECATE honour human incident instance interest Iphigenia Jocasta Julius Cæsar king Lady Macb Lady Macbeth Laius LECTURE lightning living look lord Macduff Menelaus mind moral mother nature never noble o'er once Othello passion play plot poet poetry Polybus POTTER'S Transl Rosse and Angus scene Shakespeare shalt sleep Sophocles soul speak speech spirit stage stand tears tell thane of Cawdor Thebes thee thing thou art thought thunder Tiresias tragedy unity verse weird sisters word
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Página 112 - The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,— For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all, all honourable men,— Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 15 - 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, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 106 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 219 - Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 121 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 204 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered 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?
Página 102 - Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records...
Página 114 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Página 118 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, — shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Página 162 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.