Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... know scarcely anything . We learn from time to time something of his financial affairs and circumstances , of purchasing and selling , which exhibit him constantly as a man of wealth and comfort . The most important public event which ...
... know scarcely anything . We learn from time to time something of his financial affairs and circumstances , of purchasing and selling , which exhibit him constantly as a man of wealth and comfort . The most important public event which ...
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... know ; nay , that which in Shakespeare's life might have perhaps corresponded with his inclination to the tragic , we should hardly be able to guess , if from outward facts , and from probable grounds and causes we were to trace his ...
... know ; nay , that which in Shakespeare's life might have perhaps corresponded with his inclination to the tragic , we should hardly be able to guess , if from outward facts , and from probable grounds and causes we were to trace his ...
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... know well , that he undertook very essential improvements on a large scale , sometimes even completely remodelling his pieces . But the " break " , which Ben Jonson wished to lay upon Shakespeare , might have transformed Shakespeare ...
... know well , that he undertook very essential improvements on a large scale , sometimes even completely remodelling his pieces . But the " break " , which Ben Jonson wished to lay upon Shakespeare , might have transformed Shakespeare ...
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... know him- self , but also to know men and to test the instruments of his rule , seemed to be a kind of necessity with him . This circumspect wisdom , never seeing things imperfectly or from one point of view , shows itself also in his ...
... know him- self , but also to know men and to test the instruments of his rule , seemed to be a kind of necessity with him . This circumspect wisdom , never seeing things imperfectly or from one point of view , shows itself also in his ...
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... know the nature of this sin and the nature of men , such as the Lucios and the Pompeys , give us the little consolatory prospect , that this class of crime , grown indeed too great , would not be " extirped , till eating and drinking be ...
... know the nature of this sin and the nature of men , such as the Lucios and the Pompeys , give us the little consolatory prospect , that this class of crime , grown indeed too great , would not be " extirped , till eating and drinking be ...
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Página 53 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 621 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Página 66 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 330 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 8 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Página 297 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Página 136 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Página 335 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
Página 228 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Página 285 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.