Shakespeare's Comedy of the The Winter's TaleHarper, 1880 - 218 pages |
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... whole - the jeal- ousy of Leontes , the seclusion of the Queen and the repent- ance of her husband , the young Prince's love for the exceed- ingly beautiful shepherdess , etc. — although unusual , are nev- ertheless in accordance with ...
... whole - the jeal- ousy of Leontes , the seclusion of the Queen and the repent- ance of her husband , the young Prince's love for the exceed- ingly beautiful shepherdess , etc. — although unusual , are nev- ertheless in accordance with ...
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... whole and solves the contradiction of opinions and intentions , of deeds and events ; thus , in spite of all the apparent impossibilities , that which is rational and right is ultimately brought about . It is just this sovereignty of ...
... whole and solves the contradiction of opinions and intentions , of deeds and events ; thus , in spite of all the apparent impossibilities , that which is rational and right is ultimately brought about . It is just this sovereignty of ...
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... whole region of the mar- vellous ; he has described the wonderful , not so much in its outer form as in its ideal nature and character . In fact , it exists here only in the incomprehensibility of outward con- tingency and the ...
... whole region of the mar- vellous ; he has described the wonderful , not so much in its outer form as in its ideal nature and character . In fact , it exists here only in the incomprehensibility of outward con- tingency and the ...
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... whole . It is cheerful because through this veil we everywhere get a glim- mer of the light of a future which is leading all towards what is good , and because we everywhere feel that the dismal darkness of the present will be cleared ...
... whole . It is cheerful because through this veil we everywhere get a glim- mer of the light of a future which is leading all towards what is good , and because we everywhere feel that the dismal darkness of the present will be cleared ...
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... 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 of motive was not possible . The wildness of the fiction , the improbability and ...
... 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 of motive was not possible . The wildness of the fiction , the improbability and ...
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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.