Shakespeare and His TimesHarper, 1855 - 360 páginas |
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... condition of pleasure . A momentary suspension of the efforts or privations of daily life , an interval of movement and liberty , a relative abundance ; this is all that the peo- ple seek to derive from those festivities which they are ...
... condition of pleasure . A momentary suspension of the efforts or privations of daily life , an interval of movement and liberty , a relative abundance ; this is all that the peo- ple seek to derive from those festivities which they are ...
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... condition which consists entirely of ex- ceptions and privileges . In such a state of society , con- ventionalisms take the place of realities , and morals be- come factitious and feeble . Human destiny ceases to be known under its most ...
... condition which consists entirely of ex- ceptions and privileges . In such a state of society , con- ventionalisms take the place of realities , and morals be- come factitious and feeble . Human destiny ceases to be known under its most ...
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... conditions , and even to the isolation of individuals . In England , every thing combined to bring them into con- tact and connection . The principle of common delibera- tion upon matters of common interest , which is the foun- dation ...
... conditions , and even to the isolation of individuals . In England , every thing combined to bring them into con- tact and connection . The principle of common delibera- tion upon matters of common interest , which is the foun- dation ...
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... condition of adapting their representations to the feelings , habits , and imaginative character of the people , who had been formed to a taste for poetry by their own festivals and by the songs of the minstrels . Such were the condition ...
... condition of adapting their representations to the feelings , habits , and imaginative character of the people , who had been formed to a taste for poetry by their own festivals and by the songs of the minstrels . Such were the condition ...
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... condition of a man wandering , in affliction , far from his native land . The amusement of a few melancholy hours , from which the age and character of the poet had not availed to preserve him at his entrance upon a pain- ful or ...
... condition of a man wandering , in affliction , far from his native land . The amusement of a few melancholy hours , from which the age and character of the poet had not availed to preserve him at his entrance upon a pain- ful or ...
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action actors admiration afterward amusement appear Banquo beauties become belong Ben Jonson brilliant Brutus Cæsar cause character chronicle circumstances comedy comic composed crime death Desdemona desire destiny dramatic poetry Duke of Austria effect Elizabeth England entirely equally existence fact Falstaff father favor feelings festivities forms genius give habits Hamlet hand Henry Henry IV historical dramas Holinshed honor human Iago idea imagination impression inspired interest Julius Cæsar king King Lear Lear less liberty Lord Macbeth manner ment mind minstrels misfortune Molière Moor moral nature necessity never once original Othello passion peare peare's performance perhaps personages piece play pleasures poet poetic popular position possess present prince produced reason regard reign rendered Richard Romeo and Juliet says scene Shaks Shakspeare Shakspeare's sion soul spectator stage Stratford style success taste theatre thing thought tion tragedy tragic true truth unity Voltaire wife young Zaïre
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Página 282 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Página 326 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 291 - No more of that ; — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 46 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Página 108 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 171 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 330 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Página 48 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Página 46 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose ; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of
Página 282 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.