Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1817 - 352 pages |
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... thee , My hunger's gone ; but even before , I was At point to sink for food . " She afterwards finds , as she thinks , the dead body of Posthumus , and engages herself as a footboy to serve a Roman officer , when she has done all due ...
... thee , My hunger's gone ; but even before , I was At point to sink for food . " She afterwards finds , as she thinks , the dead body of Posthumus , and engages herself as a footboy to serve a Roman officer , when she has done all due ...
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... thee hither , That I may pour my spirits in thine ear , And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round , Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal . " This swelling ...
... thee hither , That I may pour my spirits in thine ear , And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round , Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal . " This swelling ...
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William Hazlitt. And therefore are they very dangerous . I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd Than what I fear ; for always I am Cæsar . Come on my right hand , for this ear is deaf , And tell me truly what thou think'st of him . " We ...
William Hazlitt. And therefore are they very dangerous . I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd Than what I fear ; for always I am Cæsar . Come on my right hand , for this ear is deaf , And tell me truly what thou think'st of him . " We ...
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... thee . " The manners are every where preserved with distinct truth . The poet and painter are very skilfully played off against one another , both affecting great attention to the other , and each taken up with his own vanity , and the ...
... thee . " The manners are every where preserved with distinct truth . The poet and painter are very skilfully played off against one another , both affecting great attention to the other , and each taken up with his own vanity , and the ...
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... Let me look back upon thee , O thou wall , That girdlest in those wolves ! Dive in the earth , And fence not Athens ! Matrons , turn incontinent ; F Obedience fail in children ; slaves and fools Pluck the TIMON OF ATHENS . 65.
... Let me look back upon thee , O thou wall , That girdlest in those wolves ! Dive in the earth , And fence not Athens ! Matrons , turn incontinent ; F Obedience fail in children ; slaves and fools Pluck the TIMON OF ATHENS . 65.
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admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus banished Banquo beauty Ben Jonson blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius character Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona doth eyes Falstaff fancy father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human Iago imagination Juliet Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity play pleasure poet poetry prince racter refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shake Shakespear shew shewn Sir Toby sleep soul speak spear speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee thing thou art thought tion Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto wife wild words Yorkshire Tragedy youth
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Page 174 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Page 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 259 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 151 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Page 352 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...