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... action combine in imparting unity and continuity to its design and progression . Shake- speare had doubtless an instinctive perception of propriety in " keeping , " ( as the painters term it , ) and his range of mind would ...
... action combine in imparting unity and continuity to its design and progression . Shake- speare had doubtless an instinctive perception of propriety in " keeping , " ( as the painters term it , ) and his range of mind would ...
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... action . He begins by an indication of his own distrust in them . He bids his attendant " go to the door " during ... actions . It is at the place appointed for the men to lie in wait for Banquo and Fleance ; and it begins thus ...
... action . He begins by an indication of his own distrust in them . He bids his attendant " go to the door " during ... actions . It is at the place appointed for the men to lie in wait for Banquo and Fleance ; and it begins thus ...
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... actions , and the consequences of a blood - guilty ambition , as thus depicted by Shakespeare . In scrutinising the ... action , carrying us on to its grand catastrophe . Thus we have the first victim of Macbeth's ambition , " the good ...
... actions , and the consequences of a blood - guilty ambition , as thus depicted by Shakespeare . In scrutinising the ... action , carrying us on to its grand catastrophe . Thus we have the first victim of Macbeth's ambition , " the good ...
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... action is a running comment upon his first ejaculation : - " Merciful powers ! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose . " He really is , as the witches said , - " Not so great as Macbeth , yet much greater ...
... action is a running comment upon his first ejaculation : - " Merciful powers ! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose . " He really is , as the witches said , - " Not so great as Macbeth , yet much greater ...
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... actions or insignificant remarks , as by the most formal display or announcement of them . For instance ; true gentleness of heart is rarely unaccompanied by an appre- ciation of the beauties of nature , animate and inanimate . To ...
... actions or insignificant remarks , as by the most formal display or announcement of them . For instance ; true gentleness of heart is rarely unaccompanied by an appre- ciation of the beauties of nature , animate and inanimate . To ...
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2d Act 3d Serv action affection ambition answer Antony Banquo bear Beatrice beauty Benedick brother Cæsar Caliban Cassio Celia character Clown conduct contrivance Coriolanus cousin death Desdemona doth drama Duke Enobarbus eyes faith Falconbridge Falstaff father feeling fellow fool gentle gentleman give Hamlet happy hath hear heart Heaven honest honour Hotspur human humour husband Iago instinct John Julius Cæsar king King Lear Lady Lear Leonato look lord Macbeth Malvolio master Master Doctor merry mind mistress moral murder nature never noble Octavius Othello passion perfect person philosophy play plot poet poet's Polonius Pompey poor prince Prince Harry qualities queen recognise replies Richard Richard III Rosalind says scene sense Shakespeare soldier soul speak speech spirit sweet thee thing thou art thought tion true turn Twelfth Night UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA uttered virtue whole wife woman womanly women words worthy young
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Page 398 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 28 - Stop up th' access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Page 403 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 417 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife ' Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Page 69 - Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 81 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 126 - t to renounce his baptism, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, — His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. How am I, then, a villain, To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good? Divinity of hell ! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now...
Page 78 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 400 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — 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...
Page 17 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.