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... . I have rather cho- sen to illustrate certain positions by examples , and leave my readers to deduce the moral themselves , and draw their own inferences . MEDON . And why have you not chosen your examples INTRODUCTION . 5.
... . I have rather cho- sen to illustrate certain positions by examples , and leave my readers to deduce the moral themselves , and draw their own inferences . MEDON . And why have you not chosen your examples INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... leave us no such resource - they frighten us into reflection -they make us believe and tremble . On the other hand , his amiable women are touched with such exquisite sim- plicity - they have so little external pretension — and are so ...
... leave us no such resource - they frighten us into reflection -they make us believe and tremble . On the other hand , his amiable women are touched with such exquisite sim- plicity - they have so little external pretension — and are so ...
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... leave Lady Florence - I would rather hear you defend Shakspeare . - MEDON . I think it is Coleridge who so finely observes , that Shaks- peare ever kept the high road of human life , whereon all travel , that he did not pick out by ...
... leave Lady Florence - I would rather hear you defend Shakspeare . - MEDON . I think it is Coleridge who so finely observes , that Shaks- peare ever kept the high road of human life , whereon all travel , that he did not pick out by ...
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... leave those angry common - places to others — they do not come well from you . Do not force me to remind you , that women have achieved enough to silence them for ever ; * and how often must that truism be repeated , that it is not a ...
... leave those angry common - places to others — they do not come well from you . Do not force me to remind you , that women have achieved enough to silence them for ever ; * and how often must that truism be repeated , that it is not a ...
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... leave them to the author of Paul Clifford , and that most exquisite painter of living manners , Mrs. Gore . St. Giles's is no more nature than St. James's . I wanted character in its essential truth , not modified by particular customs ...
... leave them to the author of Paul Clifford , and that most exquisite painter of living manners , Mrs. Gore . St. Giles's is no more nature than St. James's . I wanted character in its essential truth , not modified by particular customs ...
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admiration affections ALDA Antigone Antony Bassanio Beatrice beauty behold Benedick breath Bretagne Cæsar Camiola character charm CLEOPATRA coloring Constance Cordelia Coriolanus daughter death delicacy Desdemona dignity dramatic earth eloquence exquisite eyes fair fancy father fear feeling female feminine fond gentle Gentlemen of Verona grace grandeur grief Hamlet hath heart heaven Helena Hermione honor horror husband imagination Imogen impression innocence intellect Isabella Juliet Katharine king Lady Macbeth Leontes lord lover madam Madame de Staël marriage MEDON mind Miranda moral mother nature never noble o'er once Ophelia Othello passion PAULINA Perdita pity placed play poetical poetry Portia portrait pride prince queen racter Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind scene scorn sense sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shylock simplicity soft soul speak speech spirit story sweet temper tenderness thee Thekla thing thou thought tion touch truth Viola virtue VOLUMNIA whole wife Winter's Tale woman women words youth
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Página 67 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 366 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Página 344 - Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Página 55 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 364 - 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 139 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 238 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Página 142 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 269 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Página 133 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.