King Richard the Third ...Harper & brothers, 1884 - 256 pages |
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... Anne disappears without our learning any thing further respecting her . In marrying the murderer of her husband , she had shown a weakness almost incredible . The parts of Lord Rivers , and other friends of the queen , are of too ...
... Anne disappears without our learning any thing further respecting her . In marrying the murderer of her husband , she had shown a weakness almost incredible . The parts of Lord Rivers , and other friends of the queen , are of too ...
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... Anne , laying open his breast to the sword's point with a malicious . confidence . He knows the measure of woman's frailty , and relies on the spiritual force of his audacity and dissimulation to subdue the weak hand which tries to lift ...
... Anne , laying open his breast to the sword's point with a malicious . confidence . He knows the measure of woman's frailty , and relies on the spiritual force of his audacity and dissimulation to subdue the weak hand which tries to lift ...
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... in the play . 1. With Clarence . 2. With Hast- * A . Mézières , Shakespeare , ses Euvres et ses Critiques , p . 139 . The Leopold Shakspere ( London , 1877 ) , p . xxxix . ings . 3. With Anne , widow of Prince Edward INTRODUCTION . 31.
... in the play . 1. With Clarence . 2. With Hast- * A . Mézières , Shakespeare , ses Euvres et ses Critiques , p . 139 . The Leopold Shakspere ( London , 1877 ) , p . xxxix . ings . 3. With Anne , widow of Prince Edward INTRODUCTION . 31.
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... Anne , as the challenge - scene is re- peated in Richard II . Villain as he is , he has the villain's coolness too . He never loses temper , except when he strikes the third messenger . As a general he is as skilful as Henry the Fifth ...
... Anne , as the challenge - scene is re- peated in Richard II . Villain as he is , he has the villain's coolness too . He never loses temper , except when he strikes the third messenger . As a general he is as skilful as Henry the Fifth ...
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... Anne by Richard has stirred me , in reading it aloud , almost as much as any thing else in Shakspere . Note , too , how the first lines of the play lift you out of the mist and confusion of the Henry VI . plays into the sun of ...
... Anne by Richard has stirred me , in reading it aloud , almost as much as any thing else in Shakspere . Note , too , how the first lines of the play lift you out of the mist and confusion of the Henry VI . plays into the sun of ...
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Page 200 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 38 - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 155 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 32 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 63 - Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes...
Page 211 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 156 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 156 - For hateful deeds committed by myself! I am a villain ; yet I lie, I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well. — Fool, do not flatter. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condernns me for a villain.
Page 185 - And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Page 64 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling wak'd, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, — Such terrible impression made my dream.