Shakespeare's TempestMaynard, Merrill, 1882 - 138 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 14
Page
... Language and Literature in the Brooklyn Col legiate and Polytechnic Institute , and author of a " Text - Book on Rhetoric , " a " Text - Book on English Literature , ' and one of the authors of Reed & Kellogg's " Graded Lessons in ...
... Language and Literature in the Brooklyn Col legiate and Polytechnic Institute , and author of a " Text - Book on Rhetoric , " a " Text - Book on English Literature , ' and one of the authors of Reed & Kellogg's " Graded Lessons in ...
Page i
... language used by him in one place has been compared with the language used in other places in simi- lar circumstances , as well as with older English and with newer English . The text has been as carefully and as thoroughly annotated as ...
... language used by him in one place has been compared with the language used in other places in simi- lar circumstances , as well as with older English and with newer English . The text has been as carefully and as thoroughly annotated as ...
Page iii
... language with more power than any other writer that ever lived - he made it do more and say more than it had ever done ; he made it speak in a more original way ; and his combinations of words are per- petual provocations and ...
... language with more power than any other writer that ever lived - he made it do more and say more than it had ever done ; he made it speak in a more original way ; and his combinations of words are per- petual provocations and ...
Page iv
... language were in a state of transition . Various points were not yet settled ; and so Shakespeare's grammar is not only somewhat different from our own but is by no means uniform in itself . In the Elizabethan age , " Almost any part of ...
... language were in a state of transition . Various points were not yet settled ; and so Shakespeare's grammar is not only somewhat different from our own but is by no means uniform in itself . In the Elizabethan age , " Almost any part of ...
Page vii
... Language . ( a ) Meanings of words ; ( b ) Use of old words , or of words in an old mean- ing ; ( c ) Grammar ; ( d ) Ability to quote lines to illustrate a gram- matical point . 5. Power to Reproduce , or Quote . ( a ) What was said by ...
... Language . ( a ) Meanings of words ; ( b ) Use of old words , or of words in an old mean- ing ; ( c ) Grammar ; ( d ) Ability to quote lines to illustrate a gram- matical point . 5. Power to Reproduce , or Quote . ( a ) What was said by ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbott adjective Alon ALONSO ANTONIO beat blank verse Boatswain brave brother Caliban Carthage cell Ceres charm Chough dative daughter devil Dido Discase doth doublet drowned Duke of Milan dukedom e'er earth English Enter ARIEL Exeunt Exit eyes father Ferdinand fish foul give Gonzalo grace Hark hath heart heavens Hence hests hither in't instance island isle Julius Cæsar kind king king of Naples live lord Mailing price master meaning Merchant Mira Miranda monster Naples noun nymphs o'er phrases play pr'ythee pray Prospero queen Re-enter ARIEL remember SCENE SEBASTIAN sense Shake Shakespeare ship sleep speak spirit Stephano strange Sycorax syllables Tempest thee There's thine thing thou art thou beest thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt Trin Trinculo Tunis verb Winter's Tale word in Shakespeare yare
Popular passages
Page 86 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Page 28 - ... would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Page 58 - Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ! worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best ! Mir.
Page 86 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page 87 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 29 - Full fathom five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made ; Those are pearls that were his eyes : Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Burden, Ding-dong. Hark ! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 40 - V 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: — 150 Seb.
Page 85 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page 98 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please : Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be reliev'd by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
Page 41 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.