The Shake-speare Drama of The Tempest: The Restoration of Man's Empire Over NatureCoburn Press, 1909 - 94 pages |
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... hour , if it so hap . Cheerly , good hearts ! Out of our way , I say . ( Exit . Gon . I have great comfort from this fellow : me- thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good Fate , to ...
... hour , if it so hap . Cheerly , good hearts ! Out of our way , I say . ( Exit . Gon . I have great comfort from this fellow : me- thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good Fate , to ...
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... hour's now come ; Pros . The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ; Obey and be attentive . Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell ? I do not think thou canst , for then thou wast not Out three years old . Mir ...
... hour's now come ; Pros . The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ; Obey and be attentive . Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell ? I do not think thou canst , for then thou wast not Out three years old . Mir ...
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... hour destroy us ? Pros . My tale provokes that not , Wherefore did they not Dear , they durst Well demanded , wench : * question . So dear the love my people bore me , nor set A mark so bloody on the business , but With colours fairer ...
... hour destroy us ? Pros . My tale provokes that not , Wherefore did they not Dear , they durst Well demanded , wench : * question . So dear the love my people bore me , nor set A mark so bloody on the business , but With colours fairer ...
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... hours and tutors not so careful . * Cf . Bacon : " Princes also are brought up in the reign- ing house with assured expectation of succeeding to the throne ; are commonly spoiled by the indulgence and license of their education . " - In ...
... hours and tutors not so careful . * Cf . Bacon : " Princes also are brought up in the reign- ing house with assured expectation of succeeding to the throne ; are commonly spoiled by the indulgence and license of their education . " - In ...
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... hour , but Shake - speare , to the distress of his commentators , used it for one hour . He conformed to the requirements of popular speech . The drama is not science . Cf. Bacon : " I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is ...
... hour , but Shake - speare , to the distress of his commentators , used it for one hour . He conformed to the requirements of popular speech . The drama is not science . Cf. Bacon : " I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is ...
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allusion Alon ALONZO ancient ANTONIO Augmentis awake Boats boatswain brave brother Caliban Catullus Ceres charm Comedy of Errors daughter death devil doth dramatist drown Duke of Milan dukedom e'er earth Enter ARIEL Enter PROSPERO Exeunt Exit eyes father Ferdinand fish foul Francis Bacon give Gonzalo grace Gray's Gray's Inn hang Hark Hast thou hath hear heavens Henry VII hither island isle Juno King of Naples king's ship lord master mind Miranda monster nature never nymphs o'er play pray prithee Pros Prospero Prospero's cell queen Re-enter ARIEL remember SCENA Sebastian Shakespeare sing sleep speak spirit Stephano storm strange sweet Sycorax tell Tempest thee There's thine thing thou art thou camest thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thought thunder Tobie Matthew Trin Trinculo Tunis widow Dido wind wonder word
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Page 78 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar...
Page 72 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 23 - Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Page 37 - Scape being drunk for want of wine. Gon. I' th' 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...
Page 4 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing: The wills above be done! but I •would fain die a dry death.
Page 24 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 37 - But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity of matter, but only for God's first creature, which was light ; to have light, I say, of the growth of all parts of the world.
Page 5 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces.