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... storm by which Sir George Somers was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda , in the year 1609 , unquestionably gave rise to Shakespeare's Tempest , and suggested to him the title , as well as some of the incidents , of that admirable ...
... storm by which Sir George Somers was shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda , in the year 1609 , unquestionably gave rise to Shakespeare's Tempest , and suggested to him the title , as well as some of the incidents , of that admirable ...
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... storm at his pleasure , there is no a priori improbability in the supposition that his thoughts may have been influenced by what must have been the topic of common conversation ; and the reference to the still - vext Bermoothes ' would ...
... storm at his pleasure , there is no a priori improbability in the supposition that his thoughts may have been influenced by what must have been the topic of common conversation ; and the reference to the still - vext Bermoothes ' would ...
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... storm , the only mark of time which occurs in the play is to be found in Act ii . Scene 2 , where Trinculo says , ' When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar , they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian . ' But it is ...
... storm , the only mark of time which occurs in the play is to be found in Act ii . Scene 2 , where Trinculo says , ' When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar , they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian . ' But it is ...
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... - blance between the incidents of the wreck in the play and those of the storm encountered by the Virginian fleet in 1609 , it is worth while to quote the following from Strachey's ac- count as given in Purchas , iv . p . x PREFACE .
... - blance between the incidents of the wreck in the play and those of the storm encountered by the Virginian fleet in 1609 , it is worth while to quote the following from Strachey's ac- count as given in Purchas , iv . p . x PREFACE .
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... storm in his mind while writing The Tempest , he insisted upon determining the position of Prospero's island with rigid accuracy . Follow- ing Douce , he contended , with the full assurance of conviction , that this was Lampedusa , an ...
... storm in his mind while writing The Tempest , he insisted upon determining the position of Prospero's island with rigid accuracy . Follow- ing Douce , he contended , with the full assurance of conviction , that this was Lampedusa , an ...
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Página 54 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 68 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
Página 120 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Página 60 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I : In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 17 - Ariel's song. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands : Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there ; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. Burthen [dispersedly]. Hark, hark ! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark : Bow-wow. Ari. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. Fer. "Where should this music be? i' the air or the It sounds no more ; and, sure, it waits upon [earth?
Página 116 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string...
Página 139 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Página 143 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Página 59 - I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Página 133 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...