Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1817 - 352 pages |
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William Hazlitt. ment and fear ; and stands in doubt between the world of reality and the world of fancy . He sees sights not shewn to mortal eye , and hears unearthly music . All is tumult and disorder within and without his mind ; his ...
William Hazlitt. ment and fear ; and stands in doubt between the world of reality and the world of fancy . He sees sights not shewn to mortal eye , and hears unearthly music . All is tumult and disorder within and without his mind ; his ...
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... fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear , I do not know the man I should avoid He loves no plays , So soon as that spare Cassius . He reads much ; He is a great observer ; and he looks Quite through the deeds of men . As thou ...
... fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear , I do not know the man I should avoid He loves no plays , So soon as that spare Cassius . He reads much ; He is a great observer ; and he looks Quite through the deeds of men . As thou ...
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... fear'd Than what I fear ; for always I am Cæsar . Come on my right hand , for this ear is deaf , And tell me truly what thou think'st of him . " We know hardly any passage more expressive of the genius of Shakespear than this . It is as ...
... fear'd Than what I fear ; for always I am Cæsar . Come on my right hand , for this ear is deaf , And tell me truly what thou think'st of him . " We know hardly any passage more expressive of the genius of Shakespear than this . It is as ...
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... fear the worst that might hap- pen , and his irritability of temper added to his inveteracy of purpose , and sharpened his patri- otism . The mixed nature of his motives made him fitter to contend with bad men . The vices are never so ...
... fear the worst that might hap- pen , and his irritability of temper added to his inveteracy of purpose , and sharpened his patri- otism . The mixed nature of his motives made him fitter to contend with bad men . The vices are never so ...
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... fear , in which he abandons all his love and hopes in a breath . " Now do I see ' tis true . Look here , Iago , All my fond love thus do I blow to Heav'n . ' Tis gone . Arise black vengeance from the hollow hell ; Yield up , love , thy ...
... fear , in which he abandons all his love and hopes in a breath . " Now do I see ' tis true . Look here , Iago , All my fond love thus do I blow to Heav'n . ' Tis gone . Arise black vengeance from the hollow hell ; Yield up , love , thy ...
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Page 174 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Page 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 259 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 151 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Page 352 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...