The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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... spirit burnt within him which not the chil- ling influence of poverty could repress , nor the degradation of his situation long obscure , and the actor of mediocrity aspired to distinction as a writer for the stage . Among the dramas ...
... spirit burnt within him which not the chil- ling influence of poverty could repress , nor the degradation of his situation long obscure , and the actor of mediocrity aspired to distinction as a writer for the stage . Among the dramas ...
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... spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair , The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill . To win me soon to hell , my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side , And would corrupt my saint to be a devil ...
... spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair , The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill . To win me soon to hell , my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side , And would corrupt my saint to be a devil ...
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... spirit , against her will , In the vile prison of afflicted breath : " - - The whole of the part is Shakspeare's from the striking apostrophe to death * , to Constance's beautiful detail of her inducements for doating upon grief.t ...
... spirit , against her will , In the vile prison of afflicted breath : " - - The whole of the part is Shakspeare's from the striking apostrophe to death * , to Constance's beautiful detail of her inducements for doating upon grief.t ...
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... spirit and concise- ness is it said- Austria . Falcon . " What the devil art thou ? " One that will play the devil , sir , with you , An ' a may catch your hide and you alone . You are the hare of whom the proverb goes , Whose valour ...
... spirit and concise- ness is it said- Austria . Falcon . " What the devil art thou ? " One that will play the devil , sir , with you , An ' a may catch your hide and you alone . You are the hare of whom the proverb goes , Whose valour ...
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... spirit ; and not satisfied with all these various qualities , Shak- speare has added to his character a vein of dry sarcastic humour . For the idea of bringing Henry the Fifth on the stage in the twofold character of a dissolute young ...
... spirit ; and not satisfied with all these various qualities , Shak- speare has added to his character a vein of dry sarcastic humour . For the idea of bringing Henry the Fifth on the stage in the twofold character of a dissolute young ...
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Seite 222 - ... in her days, every man shall eat in safety, under his own vine, what he plants ; and sing the merry songs of peace to all his neighbours: God shall be truly known ; and those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honour, and by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Seite 261 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Seite 248 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Seite 257 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 242 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 151 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd 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...
Seite 69 - Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Seite 84 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Seite 330 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...