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... critics upon Shakspeare , superfluously full in pointing out his obligations , real or supposed , to secular authors , are singularly meagre in the references which they make to the Holy Scriptures . And yet how abun- dant is the room ...
... critics upon Shakspeare , superfluously full in pointing out his obligations , real or supposed , to secular authors , are singularly meagre in the references which they make to the Holy Scriptures . And yet how abun- dant is the room ...
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... critics would seem to have forgotten , or misconceived , the purpose of its First Part . I would , therefore , repeat that the proof of Shakspeare's knowledge and use of the Bible is not supposed to lie in his employing words and ...
... critics would seem to have forgotten , or misconceived , the purpose of its First Part . I would , therefore , repeat that the proof of Shakspeare's knowledge and use of the Bible is not supposed to lie in his employing words and ...
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... critics would seem to have suspected , or at all events has yet attempted to point out . His marvellous knowledge of the Book of Nature is ad- mitted on all hands : his knowledge of the Book of Grace , though far less noticed , will be ...
... critics would seem to have suspected , or at all events has yet attempted to point out . His marvellous knowledge of the Book of Nature is ad- mitted on all hands : his knowledge of the Book of Grace , though far less noticed , will be ...
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... in King Lear , v . 3 ; scope . . . . allow , ' in Hamlet , i . 2. See the critics upon p . 70 , sq . Cymbeline , ii . 3. — Vol . xiii . grace , ' afterwards shortened into the letter ' s in the Bible and in Shakspeare . 13.
... in King Lear , v . 3 ; scope . . . . allow , ' in Hamlet , i . 2. See the critics upon p . 70 , sq . Cymbeline , ii . 3. — Vol . xiii . grace , ' afterwards shortened into the letter ' s in the Bible and in Shakspeare . 13.
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... critics , even of the highest rank . Let me produce one notable example , derived from the play of Antony and Cleopatra , Act iii . Sc . II . After the ignominious flight , in which Antony had followed Cleopatra from the coast of Actium ...
... critics , even of the highest rank . Let me produce one notable example , derived from the play of Antony and Cleopatra , Act iii . Sc . II . After the ignominious flight , in which Antony had followed Cleopatra from the coast of Actium ...
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Page 267 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 133 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 67 - Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Page 131 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 158 - To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 316 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 148 - And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Page 150 - My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Page 179 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair Unless I be relieved by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Page 194 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.