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... tones of the successive Variorum editors , until Reed , in the edition of 1803 , is content to leave the poet's renown as established on a basis which will bid defiance to the caprices of fashion and the canker of time . ' The first ...
... tones of the successive Variorum editors , until Reed , in the edition of 1803 , is content to leave the poet's renown as established on a basis which will bid defiance to the caprices of fashion and the canker of time . ' The first ...
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... tone was still later kept up by Voltaire , who calls Shakespeare a writer of monstrous farces called tragedies ; says that nature had blended in him all that is most great and elevating with all the basest qualities that belong to ...
... tone was still later kept up by Voltaire , who calls Shakespeare a writer of monstrous farces called tragedies ; says that nature had blended in him all that is most great and elevating with all the basest qualities that belong to ...
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... tone of mind that contended for the classical unities had in an earlier generation contended for the classical languages as standards . the sole vehicle of literary expression , and the modern lan- unities ' : and limita- tions by still ...
... tone of mind that contended for the classical unities had in an earlier generation contended for the classical languages as standards . the sole vehicle of literary expression , and the modern lan- unities ' : and limita- tions by still ...
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... which his friendship with the young nobleman exposes him his tone throughout the interview is that of the barest toleration , and suggests that his courtesies CHAP . I. are felt rather as what is due STORY AS DRAMATIC MATERIAL . 47.
... which his friendship with the young nobleman exposes him his tone throughout the interview is that of the barest toleration , and suggests that his courtesies CHAP . I. are felt rather as what is due STORY AS DRAMATIC MATERIAL . 47.
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... tone of infatuated confidence , the hybris in which Greek superstition saw the signal for the descent of Nemesis . I am as like to call thee so again , To spit on thee again , to spurn thee too . If thou wilt lend this money , lend it ...
... tone of infatuated confidence , the hybris in which Greek superstition saw the signal for the descent of Nemesis . I am as like to call thee so again , To spit on thee again , to spurn thee too . If thou wilt lend this money , lend it ...
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Page 153 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 212 - Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 48 - And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 163 - Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.
Page 60 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 150 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest...
Page 152 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 188 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark...
Page 144 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Page 138 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.