The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Histories, vol. 1. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, Part I-II. King Henry VC. Knight, 1851 |
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... nature of the characters and incidents , of these wondrous creations , have often given a co- herence and force to my own imperfect conceptions , which the best criticism might have failed to supply . This consideration , as well as the ...
... nature of the characters and incidents , of these wondrous creations , have often given a co- herence and force to my own imperfect conceptions , which the best criticism might have failed to supply . This consideration , as well as the ...
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... natural and obvious , the images familiar and general . The most celebrated passages have a cha- racter of grace rather than of beauty ; the elegance of a youthful poet aiming to be correct . Johnson considered this comedy to be wanting ...
... natural and obvious , the images familiar and general . The most celebrated passages have a cha- racter of grace rather than of beauty ; the elegance of a youthful poet aiming to be correct . Johnson considered this comedy to be wanting ...
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... nature of love , force you . SIL . O heaven ! Рко . I'll force thee yield to my desire . VAL . Ruffian , let go that rude uncivil touch ; PRO . Thou friend of an ill fashion ! Valentine ! VAL . Thou common friend , that's without faith ...
... nature of love , force you . SIL . O heaven ! Рко . I'll force thee yield to my desire . VAL . Ruffian , let go that rude uncivil touch ; PRO . Thou friend of an ill fashion ! Valentine ! VAL . Thou common friend , that's without faith ...
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... Nature , must have noted , is described in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' - " Some to kill cankers in the musk - rose buds . " And in 1 Henry VI . , ' - " Hath not thy rose a canker . " The instrument by which the canker was pro- duced ...
... Nature , must have noted , is described in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' - " Some to kill cankers in the musk - rose buds . " And in 1 Henry VI . , ' - " Hath not thy rose a canker . " The instrument by which the canker was pro- duced ...
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... nature - by the impulses of nature , by natural affection , —as opposed to vile offence , the violation of the municipal laws of Ephesus . The word too in this line was supplied in the second folio . The first folio reads- " And he ...
... nature - by the impulses of nature , by natural affection , —as opposed to vile offence , the violation of the municipal laws of Ephesus . The word too in this line was supplied in the second folio . The first folio reads- " And he ...
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Page 532 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 555 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 220 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who...
Page 162 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor), Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 471 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 149 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 191 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
Page 510 - And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then; you come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say 'Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?