Shakespeare Self-revealed in His Sonnets and Phoenix and TurtleSherratt & Hughes, 1904 - 275 pages |
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... passion , though neither belongs exclusively to either ; ' for the Love of Ideal Beauty is conformable to wisdom and reason , while the Love of Fame is but passion . 6 The qualification expressed in both our quotations is fully admitted ...
... passion , though neither belongs exclusively to either ; ' for the Love of Ideal Beauty is conformable to wisdom and reason , while the Love of Fame is but passion . 6 The qualification expressed in both our quotations is fully admitted ...
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... passion- unconquerable as you will find it by the most deliberate and maintained efforts fancy what it becomes when , instead of striving to subdue , we take every means in our power to increase and encourage it ; and when all the ...
... passion- unconquerable as you will find it by the most deliberate and maintained efforts fancy what it becomes when , instead of striving to subdue , we take every means in our power to increase and encourage it ; and when all the ...
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... passion , the Courtier by the helpe of reason muste full and wholy call backe again the coveting of the body to beawtye alone , and ( in what he can ) beehoulde it in it self simple and pure , and frame it within in his imagination ...
... passion , the Courtier by the helpe of reason muste full and wholy call backe again the coveting of the body to beawtye alone , and ( in what he can ) beehoulde it in it self simple and pure , and frame it within in his imagination ...
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... passions as mens be , nor accustomed in behouldinges , as M. Peter hath said , is necessary for them to be , that will tast of the heavenly love . Therefore it is not read that ever woman hath had this grace : but manie men have had it ...
... passions as mens be , nor accustomed in behouldinges , as M. Peter hath said , is necessary for them to be , that will tast of the heavenly love . Therefore it is not read that ever woman hath had this grace : but manie men have had it ...
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... passion : Ah me ! says one ; O Jove ! the other cries ; One , her hairs were gold , crystal the other's eyes . ' Although the words ' guilty rhymes ' refer to the breach of the vow they had made , the scorn is applied to the ...
... passion : Ah me ! says one ; O Jove ! the other cries ; One , her hairs were gold , crystal the other's eyes . ' Although the words ' guilty rhymes ' refer to the breach of the vow they had made , the scorn is applied to the ...
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actors Addresses Fame Addresses the Spirit beauty's Ben Jonson better Cæsar Caliban Chester's poem conceit dead dear death dedication desire doth dramatist evidence evil expressed eyes Faerie Queene fair fear Folio gentle give glory grace Hall Halliwell-Phillipps Hamlet hand hast hath heart heaven heavenly Horace Jonson King lines live look Love of Beauty Love of Fame Love's Martyr Lust of Fame manuscripts mistress Muse nature passion Passionate Pilgrim perfect Phoenix and Turtle plays poet poet's posterity praise Prospero published reference rhyme Robert Chester says seen self-love Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's mind Shakespeare's Sonnets shalt shame Sidney Lee sight sorrow soul speak Spenser Spirit of Beauty STANZA Stratford Stratford-on-Avon thee thine things thou art thou dost thought thy love thy sweet thyself Tibullus Time's true truth Turtle Dove verse Virgil Whilst William Shakespeare words write written wrote youth
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Page 74 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 210 - How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
Page 188 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 236 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 240 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 190 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead.
Page 229 - They that have power to hurt and will do none,' That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
Page 216 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 203 - What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new...
Page 235 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah ! yet...