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... perfect scarecrows and ogresses , we can safely , like the Pharisee in Scripture , hug ourselves in our secure virtue , and thank God that we are not as others are : -- but the wicked women in Shakspeare are por- trayed with such perfect ...
... perfect scarecrows and ogresses , we can safely , like the Pharisee in Scripture , hug ourselves in our secure virtue , and thank God that we are not as others are : -- but the wicked women in Shakspeare are por- trayed with such perfect ...
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... But common clay ta'en from the common earth , Moulded by God , and tempered by the tears Of angels , to the perfect form of — woman . MEDON . Beautiful lines ! -Where are they ? ALDA . I quote from memory , and I am 32 INTRODUCTION .
... But common clay ta'en from the common earth , Moulded by God , and tempered by the tears Of angels , to the perfect form of — woman . MEDON . Beautiful lines ! -Where are they ? ALDA . I quote from memory , and I am 32 INTRODUCTION .
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... perfect model of an intellectual woman , in whom wit is tempered by sensibility , and fancy regulated by strong reflection . It is ob- jected to her , to Beatrice , and others of Shakspeare's women , that the display of intellect is ...
... perfect model of an intellectual woman , in whom wit is tempered by sensibility , and fancy regulated by strong reflection . It is ob- jected to her , to Beatrice , and others of Shakspeare's women , that the display of intellect is ...
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... perfect in their kind , because so quiet in their effect . MEDON . -are Several critics have remarked in general terms on those beautiful pictures of female friendship , and of the generous affection of women for each other , which we ...
... perfect in their kind , because so quiet in their effect . MEDON . -are Several critics have remarked in general terms on those beautiful pictures of female friendship , and of the generous affection of women for each other , which we ...
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... perfect in its way , most admirably drawn , most highly finished . But if considered in another point of view , as women and indi- viduals , as breathing realities , clothed in flesh and blood , I believe we must assign the first rank ...
... perfect in its way , most admirably drawn , most highly finished . But if considered in another point of view , as women and indi- viduals , as breathing realities , clothed in flesh and blood , I believe we must assign the first rank ...
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Page 237 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Page 168 - Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo ! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 93 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 238 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page 113 - 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 240 - Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. — Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the Winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both,7 And welcome to our shearing ! Polix.
Page 12 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 115 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Page 114 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 168 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.