Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1Baker and Scribner, 1848 - Dramatists, English |
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... supposed attempt at stealing deer ; which supposed attempt so much exasperated this pow- erful and pious preserver of his game , as to render Shakspeare's longer stay at Stratford out of the ques- tion . I probably need not say that ...
... supposed attempt at stealing deer ; which supposed attempt so much exasperated this pow- erful and pious preserver of his game , as to render Shakspeare's longer stay at Stratford out of the ques- tion . I probably need not say that ...
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... supposed . The monstrous brood of a race of Ti- tans , these productions betrayed at least a giant strength , far preferable indeed of itself to the creeping effemi- nacy , the frozen rhetoric , and the apish etiquette of a much later ...
... supposed . The monstrous brood of a race of Ti- tans , these productions betrayed at least a giant strength , far preferable indeed of itself to the creeping effemi- nacy , the frozen rhetoric , and the apish etiquette of a much later ...
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... supposed a tolerably accurate and complete biography of the author for the time might be gleaned from them . Of their merits , save as they afford a clew to his views and feelings re- specting himself , his prospects and pursuits , I ...
... supposed a tolerably accurate and complete biography of the author for the time might be gleaned from them . Of their merits , save as they afford a clew to his views and feelings re- specting himself , his prospects and pursuits , I ...
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... suspect , in this matter of feeling than is generally supposed . Many people seem to have no true feelings whatever , but only sensations , which they mistake for feelings . And of the remaining portion , SENSIBILITY . 65.
... suspect , in this matter of feeling than is generally supposed . Many people seem to have no true feelings whatever , but only sensations , which they mistake for feelings . And of the remaining portion , SENSIBILITY . 65.
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... supposed , however , that Shakspeare is a suitable book for all readers . Probably there is no book whatsoever , whereof this can be justly affirmed . It is an old maxim , that what is one man's food is an- other man's poison . Whether ...
... supposed , however , that Shakspeare is a suitable book for all readers . Probably there is no book whatsoever , whereof this can be justly affirmed . It is an old maxim , that what is one man's food is an- other man's poison . Whether ...
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Page 223 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 36 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead.
Page 223 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd ; Love's feeling is more soft and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled* snails...
Page 38 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 30 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 35 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 317 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 62 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 31 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.
Page 13 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions...