Shakespeare's Comedy of the The Winter's TaleHarper, 1880 - 218 pages |
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... characters ; and its teeming wealth of wisdom , and the daring and dainty beauty of its poetry , give the play a high place in the second rank of Shakespeare's works . Briefly , it is the old story over again : the dry stick that seems ...
... characters ; and its teeming wealth of wisdom , and the daring and dainty beauty of its poetry , give the play a high place in the second rank of Shakespeare's works . Briefly , it is the old story over again : the dry stick that seems ...
Page 14
... character of a tale and its title . For pure contingency - in its outward , objective form , which , as such , interrupts the order of nature , the given disposition of time and space , the causal connection of things , and comes in ...
... character of a tale and its title . For pure contingency - in its outward , objective form , which , as such , interrupts the order of nature , the given disposition of time and space , the causal connection of things , and comes in ...
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... character . In fact , it exists here only in the incomprehensibility of outward con- tingency and the mysterious connection of the latter with the actions and fortunes of the dramatic characters . By thus modifying the idea Shakspeare ...
... character . In fact , it exists here only in the incomprehensibility of outward con- tingency and the mysterious connection of the latter with the actions and fortunes of the dramatic characters . By thus modifying the idea Shakspeare ...
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... characters and course of events ; but to impart an intrinsic value to the subject as a whole , to bring a double action into unity , and to give to the play the character of a regular drama by mere arrangements of matter and alteration ...
... characters and course of events ; but to impart an intrinsic value to the subject as a whole , to bring a double action into unity , and to give to the play the character of a regular drama by mere arrangements of matter and alteration ...
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... character of the play , which is wholly found- ed on the incredible and improbable . If we will dispute with him , it must be on the one point only - whether fictions be admissible on the stage or not . We must not criticise mistakes ...
... character of the play , which is wholly found- ed on the incredible and improbable . If we will dispute with him , it must be on the one point only - whether fictions be admissible on the stage or not . We must not criticise mistakes ...
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1st folio Abbott Gr Antigonus Archidamus Autolycus beauty Beseech blood Bohemia Camb Camillo Carbonadoed character child Clarke Cleomenes Clown Coll colour comfort conjectured Cymb Cymbeline dare daugh daughter death Delphos dildo Dion discase editors ellipsis emendation Emilia Exeunt eyes father fear feel Florizel flowers follows garden Gentleman give grace gracious Greene's novel Halliwell hand Hanmer hast hath heart heavens Hermione Hermione's honest honour innocent jealousy Johnson king King of Bohemia lady later folios Lear Leontes look lord Macb Malone Mamillius means nature never noble oracle Othello oxlips Pandosto passage passion Paulina Perdita play Polixenes prince prithee queen remarks repent Rich royal SCENE Schmidt seems Servant Shakespeare Shakspere Shepherd Sicilia Sonn sorrow speak Steevens quotes swear sweet Temp thee Theo thing thou art thought truth wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 93 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing ! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark that...
Page 111 - 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 100 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 101 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, 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...
Page 170 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 187 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 101 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 87 - I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Page 27 - Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Page 81 - Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten ; and the king shall live •without an heir, if that, which is lost, be not found.