ShakespeareJ. Cape, 1961 - 448 pages |
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Page 143
... Queen would resist this dissipation of her dumb ex- perience into conceit ; yet her very resistance expresses itself in conceit . QUEEN . It may be so ; but yet my inward soul Persuades me it is otherwise : howe'er it be , I cannot but ...
... Queen would resist this dissipation of her dumb ex- perience into conceit ; yet her very resistance expresses itself in conceit . QUEEN . It may be so ; but yet my inward soul Persuades me it is otherwise : howe'er it be , I cannot but ...
Page 149
... Queen , cannot escape it by the play of fancy . Not only is he in this unlike the King and Queen ; but more markedly still he is unlike John of Gaunt , a figure of age and responsibility like his own . He has none of Gaunt's eloquence ...
... Queen , cannot escape it by the play of fancy . Not only is he in this unlike the King and Queen ; but more markedly still he is unlike John of Gaunt , a figure of age and responsibility like his own . He has none of Gaunt's eloquence ...
Page 216
... Queen was the kind of queen to make it easy for him , because she had fundamentally the same tastes as the people . She liked the plays they liked ; and they liked the plays she liked — at bottom . We cannot really distinguish between ...
... Queen was the kind of queen to make it easy for him , because she had fundamentally the same tastes as the people . She liked the plays they liked ; and they liked the plays she liked — at bottom . We cannot really distinguish between ...
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