The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. |
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... nature of the plot and the suitableness of the title found in Meres , states , complainingly , " Why the title was altered , or by whom , I cannot discover , " — and when Tieck says , " The poet probably first called this play Love's ...
... nature of the plot and the suitableness of the title found in Meres , states , complainingly , " Why the title was altered , or by whom , I cannot discover , " — and when Tieck says , " The poet probably first called this play Love's ...
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William Shakespeare Charles Knight. Inferior natures that estimate their labours by a common standard- " that weigh ... nature's truth , Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth . " How delicately , too , does he make Helena ...
William Shakespeare Charles Knight. Inferior natures that estimate their labours by a common standard- " that weigh ... nature's truth , Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth . " How delicately , too , does he make Helena ...
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... nature and soul of the author . The story of Isabella ' is scarcely less fine , and is more affecting in the circumstances and in the catastrophe . Dryden has done justice to the impassioned eloquence of the ' Tancred and Sigismunda ...
... nature and soul of the author . The story of Isabella ' is scarcely less fine , and is more affecting in the circumstances and in the catastrophe . Dryden has done justice to the impassioned eloquence of the ' Tancred and Sigismunda ...
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... nature im- mortal , and death should have play for lack of work . ' Would , for the king's sake , he were living ! I think it would be the death of the king's disease . ⚫ Passage . This use of the word is now little known ; but it is ...
... nature im- mortal , and death should have play for lack of work . ' Would , for the king's sake , he were living ! I think it would be the death of the king's disease . ⚫ Passage . This use of the word is now little known ; but it is ...
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... natural temper and affections - by the other the results of education . In like manner " virtuous qualities mean the same ... nature can scarcely be called good ! " Goodness , " in the high sense in which our poet uses it , can only be ...
... natural temper and affections - by the other the results of education . In like manner " virtuous qualities mean the same ... nature can scarcely be called good ! " Goodness , " in the high sense in which our poet uses it , can only be ...
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Page 371 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 443 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 420 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 48 - Lord. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 224 - When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown. Take that; and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold : All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo so The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty,...
Page 288 - 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 90 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.