Shakespeare Commentaries, Band 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... piece is an Italian tale in Giraldi Cinthio's Hekatomithi ( 8. 5. ) , translated in Whetstone's Heptameron of Civil Discourses . 1582. The cruel and painful purport of this tale is briefly this . The Emperor's deputy in Inspruck ...
... piece is an Italian tale in Giraldi Cinthio's Hekatomithi ( 8. 5. ) , translated in Whetstone's Heptameron of Civil Discourses . 1582. The cruel and painful purport of this tale is briefly this . The Emperor's deputy in Inspruck ...
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... piece in ten acts upon this sub- ject , entitled Promos and Cassandra , which was never per- formed . Even he felt the necessity of moderating the repulsive tenor of the narrative . As the piece from its happy conclusion was to be a ...
... piece in ten acts upon this sub- ject , entitled Promos and Cassandra , which was never per- formed . Even he felt the necessity of moderating the repulsive tenor of the narrative . As the piece from its happy conclusion was to be a ...
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... piece . Notwithstanding the play found little favour with most English critics , Hunter , Knight , and others ; even an admirer , like Coleridge , called this play the most pain- ful or rather the only painful work among Shakespeare's ...
... piece . Notwithstanding the play found little favour with most English critics , Hunter , Knight , and others ; even an admirer , like Coleridge , called this play the most pain- ful or rather the only painful work among Shakespeare's ...
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... piece , no trace of this arrangement is to be found nor of the delicacy which dictated it . Now begins the official career of the eager young statesman . He " picks out " from the dust the Draco - like statutes ; the law is no more to ...
... piece , no trace of this arrangement is to be found nor of the delicacy which dictated it . Now begins the official career of the eager young statesman . He " picks out " from the dust the Draco - like statutes ; the law is no more to ...
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... piece upon the mercy , which mediates between severe justice and crime , and it is for this that the poet turns so decidedly against the absolute execution of the law , and the literal meaning of its letter . Whilst he quotes in ...
... piece upon the mercy , which mediates between severe justice and crime , and it is for this that the poet turns so decidedly against the absolute execution of the law , and the literal meaning of its letter . Whilst he quotes in ...
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Seite 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Seite 64 - 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.
Seite 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Seite 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Seite 295 - 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.
Seite 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Seite 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Seite 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Seite 328 - 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.
Seite 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.