The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with Biographical Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell...Porteous, 1865 |
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Page xxix
... poor , To choose for wealth , and not for perfect love . Henry is able to enrich his queen , And not to seek a queen to make him rich : So worthless peasants bargain for their wives , As market - men for oxen , sheep , or BIOGRAPHICAL ...
... poor , To choose for wealth , and not for perfect love . Henry is able to enrich his queen , And not to seek a queen to make him rich : So worthless peasants bargain for their wives , As market - men for oxen , sheep , or BIOGRAPHICAL ...
Page xxxiv
... poor scare - crowe , at London an asse ; " which , as De Quincey remarks , resemble more a pro- duction of Charles II.'s reign , and were no doubt levelled by an irritated poetaster at some other and later xxxiv BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... poor scare - crowe , at London an asse ; " which , as De Quincey remarks , resemble more a pro- duction of Charles II.'s reign , and were no doubt levelled by an irritated poetaster at some other and later xxxiv BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxv
... poor sequestered stag " when he penned that exquisite description of the wounded deer that came to languish " Under an oak , whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; " or when he made the Duke say , in ...
... poor sequestered stag " when he penned that exquisite description of the wounded deer that came to languish " Under an oak , whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; " or when he made the Duke say , in ...
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... poor crooked scythe and spade , " that he made nature predominant over accident . " " He had no models ; he had nothing to guide him but his own perspicacity . Chaucer was the greatest of his predecessors , but he has drawn little from ...
... poor crooked scythe and spade , " that he made nature predominant over accident . " " He had no models ; he had nothing to guide him but his own perspicacity . Chaucer was the greatest of his predecessors , but he has drawn little from ...
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... incidents or enchaining it in suspense , let but a quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work unfinished . A quibble , poor and barren as it is , gave him such delight that he was lxxvi BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... incidents or enchaining it in suspense , let but a quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work unfinished . A quibble , poor and barren as it is , gave him such delight that he was lxxvi BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
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Page 204 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 285 - Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, bring again ; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.
Page 183 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 275 - In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling! — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 275 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 50 - Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required 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 xxxviii - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page xc - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 50 - By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, — Weak masters though ye be...
Page 24 - I' 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— Seb.