King Richard the Third ...Harper & brothers, 1884 - 256 pages |
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... citizen faith in church and king , flatters his malignant sense of power . To cheat a gull , a coarse hypocrisy suffices . † . . . Richard's cynicism and insolence have in them a kind of grim mirth ; such a bonhomie as might be met with ...
... citizen faith in church and king , flatters his malignant sense of power . To cheat a gull , a coarse hypocrisy suffices . † . . . Richard's cynicism and insolence have in them a kind of grim mirth ; such a bonhomie as might be met with ...
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... citizens ' talk ; and the poorness of it , and the monot- ony of the women's curses , have given rise to the theory that * I have always , though , considered this genuine repentance , or at least a genuine profession of it . in Richard ...
... citizens ' talk ; and the poorness of it , and the monot- ony of the women's curses , have given rise to the theory that * I have always , though , considered this genuine repentance , or at least a genuine profession of it . in Richard ...
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... Citizen . Good morrow , neighbour ; whither away so fast ? 2 Citizen . I promise you , I scarcely know myself . Hear you the news abroad ? I Citizen . Yes , that the king is dead . 2 Citizen . Ill news , by ' r lady ; seldom comes the ...
... Citizen . Good morrow , neighbour ; whither away so fast ? 2 Citizen . I promise you , I scarcely know myself . Hear you the news abroad ? I Citizen . Yes , that the king is dead . 2 Citizen . Ill news , by ' r lady ; seldom comes the ...
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... Citizen . Why , so hath this , both by his father and mother . 3 Citizen . Better it were they all came by his father , Or by his father there were none at all ; For emulation , who shall now be nearest , Will touch us all too near , if ...
... Citizen . Why , so hath this , both by his father and mother . 3 Citizen . Better it were they all came by his father , Or by his father there were none at all ; For emulation , who shall now be nearest , Will touch us all too near , if ...
Page 105
... citizens With all your just proceedings in this case . Gloster . And to that end we wish'd your lordship here , To avoid ... citizen , Only for saying he would make his son Heir to the crown , meaning indeed his house , Which by the sign ...
... citizens With all your just proceedings in this case . Gloster . And to that end we wish'd your lordship here , To avoid ... citizen , Only for saying he would make his son Heir to the crown , meaning indeed his house , Which by the sign ...
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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.