A History of English Poetry, Volume 4Macmillan and Company, 1903 |
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... expressions , we at once feel ourselves to be face to face with a mystery . Two opposite schools of in- terpretation , in particular , have developed themselves , the German and the English , each equally confident and equally ...
... expressions , we at once feel ourselves to be face to face with a mystery . Two opposite schools of in- terpretation , in particular , have developed themselves , the German and the English , each equally confident and equally ...
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... expressions that this play was a work of nearly the same date as The Spanish Tragedy , it is reasonable to conclude that he was writing for the stage before 1590 . We know for certain , from Greene's testimony , that he had established ...
... expressions that this play was a work of nearly the same date as The Spanish Tragedy , it is reasonable to conclude that he was writing for the stage before 1590 . We know for certain , from Greene's testimony , that he had established ...
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... expressions used in the Sonnets ; on the other hand , he has himself sought to destroy one of the arguments on which Southampton's claims were originally grounded , by maintaining that " Mr. W. H. " is Mr. William Hall . Of this ...
... expressions used in the Sonnets ; on the other hand , he has himself sought to destroy one of the arguments on which Southampton's claims were originally grounded , by maintaining that " Mr. W. H. " is Mr. William Hall . Of this ...
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... expression to a profound view of life , the result partly of observation and reflection about men and things , partly of personal ex- perience and emotion ; that this view took fresh form 36 CHAP . A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
... expression to a profound view of life , the result partly of observation and reflection about men and things , partly of personal ex- perience and emotion ; that this view took fresh form 36 CHAP . A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
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... expression of these general and personal feelings is greatly modified by the traditions of the poetical form which Shakespeare employed , so that , in interpreting his sentiment , we have always to keep in mind the vein of thought ...
... expression of these general and personal feelings is greatly modified by the traditions of the poetical form which Shakespeare employed , so that , in interpreting his sentiment , we have always to keep in mind the vein of thought ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acter action actors admirable Antony appears audience Beaumont beautiful Ben Jonson Brutus Cæsar character Comedy of Errors comic Court Cynthia's Revels death Dekker dialogue doth dramatic dramatist Dryden Duke English Euphues euphuism exhibit Falstaff feeling Fletcher fool fortunes genius Gentlemen of Verona Hamlet hand hath heart heaven honour human humour Iago Ibid idea ideal imagination imitation Jonson Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear Love's Labour's Lost Lover's Melancholy Lyly Lyly's manner Marlowe Marlowe's Massinger melancholy Midsummer-Night's Dream moral motive nature Othello passion person play plot poet poet's poetical Prince principle prologue represented revenge Richard Richard III romantic Romeo and Juliet says scene seems Shakespeare Shrew Sonnets soul spectators speech spirit stage story style sympathy tale Tamburlaine Taming taste theatre thee things thou art thought tion Titus Andronicus tragedy tragic underplot virtue wife
Passagens conhecidas
Página 129 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
Página 149 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 128 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother?
Página 103 - I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace ; Leave gormandizing ; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men...
Página 42 - 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 131 - Lear. My wits begin to turn. — Come on, my boy : how dost, my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself. — Where is this straw, my fellow ? The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel. — Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart That 's sorry yet for thee.
Página 42 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Página 150 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Página 109 - No, sir," quoth he, "Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune." And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock. Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.
Página 98 - 11 sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit. P. Hen. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...