Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays, Том 1

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G. Bell and sons, 1876
 

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Сторінка 235 - ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following; that is to say : first, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.
Сторінка 366 - Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war 1 Farewell!
Сторінка 247 - higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances; Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Сторінка 368 - gamer'd up my heart: Where either I must live, or bear no life; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up; to be discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern, for foul toads To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin ! Ay, there, look grim as hell!
Сторінка 397 - lov'd not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit
Сторінка 226 - 0, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide. Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand : Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Сторінка 200 - myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he was excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers men of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Сторінка 373 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well; Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Сторінка 199 - that he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you : and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in the country.
Сторінка 218 - as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy witness his' Gentlemen of Verona,'

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