Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those SubordinateSmith, Elder & Company, 1863 - 521 Seiten |
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... never been surpassed ; and it is one which an ordi- nary writer of plays would have diluted , and spread over pages of talky - talk , and , in consequence , he would have missed his point . Whereas , Shakespeare has simply denoted the ...
... never been surpassed ; and it is one which an ordi- nary writer of plays would have diluted , and spread over pages of talky - talk , and , in consequence , he would have missed his point . Whereas , Shakespeare has simply denoted the ...
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... never tremble : " & c . And lastly , upon her upbraiding him with his unmanliness , he gives her the most convincing excuse for it : " If I stand here , I saw him ! " How artful , too , is the using of that relative pronoun , " him ...
... never tremble : " & c . And lastly , upon her upbraiding him with his unmanliness , he gives her the most convincing excuse for it : " If I stand here , I saw him ! " How artful , too , is the using of that relative pronoun , " him ...
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... never intended to be the partners , still less the rivals of Omnipotence . We are to bear in mind that they addressed the two men at the same time - both ambitious men - and cast upon each the seeds of temptation . That one only was ...
... never intended to be the partners , still less the rivals of Omnipotence . We are to bear in mind that they addressed the two men at the same time - both ambitious men - and cast upon each the seeds of temptation . That one only was ...
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... never misses an opportunity of girding at your pompous and affectedly pensive character , and of proclaiming the superior qualifications of cheerfulness and good - humour . Instances of this might be multiplied ; while I know of none ...
... never misses an opportunity of girding at your pompous and affectedly pensive character , and of proclaiming the superior qualifications of cheerfulness and good - humour . Instances of this might be multiplied ; while I know of none ...
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... never brings him point to point in contest of wit with any of the other charac- ters of the play , but he is foiled ; they , being natural people , outwit the artificial one . He first tries his hand with Orlando , and upon a tender ...
... never brings him point to point in contest of wit with any of the other charac- ters of the play , but he is foiled ; they , being natural people , outwit the artificial one . He first tries his hand with Orlando , and upon a tender ...
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2d Act 3d Serv action affection ambition answer Antony Banquo bear Beatrice beauty Benedick brother Cæsar Caliban Cassio Celia character Clown conduct contrivance Coriolanus cousin death Desdemona doth drama Duke Enobarbus eyes faith Falconbridge Falstaff father feeling fellow fool gentle gentleman give Hamlet happy hath hear heart Heaven honest honour Hotspur human humour husband Iago instinct John Julius Cæsar king King Lear Lady Lear Leonato look lord Macbeth Malvolio master Master Doctor merry mind mistress moral murder nature never noble Octavius Othello passion perfect person philosophy play plot poet poet's Polonius Pompey poor prince Prince Harry qualities queen recognise replies Richard Richard III Rosalind says scene sense Shakespeare soldier soul speak speech spirit sweet thee thing thou art thought tion true turn Twelfth Night UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA uttered virtue whole wife woman womanly women words worthy young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 398 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Seite 28 - Stop up th' access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Seite 403 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 417 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife ' Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Seite 69 - Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Seite 81 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Seite 126 - t to renounce his baptism, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, — His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. How am I, then, a villain, To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good? Divinity of hell ! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now...
Seite 78 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Seite 400 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then...
Seite 17 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.