Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to HamletDaldy, Isbister, & Company, 1877 - 479 pages |
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... Coleridge regards the same dignitary as no creature of the day , to disappear with the day , but the representative and abstract of truth which must ever be true , and of humour which must ever be humorous . Elsewhere he remarks that as ...
... Coleridge regards the same dignitary as no creature of the day , to disappear with the day , but the representative and abstract of truth which must ever be true , and of humour which must ever be humorous . Elsewhere he remarks that as ...
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... Coleridge might have been consigned to the same category by the cheik , for venturing in verses addressed To a Young Ass , to fraternise with him in such terms as these : " Thou poor despised Forlorn ! I hail thee Brother - spite of the ...
... Coleridge might have been consigned to the same category by the cheik , for venturing in verses addressed To a Young Ass , to fraternise with him in such terms as these : " Thou poor despised Forlorn ! I hail thee Brother - spite of the ...
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... Coleridge somewhere says . La Fontaine's charlatan has no such compunctious visitings : " Que l'on m'amène un âne , un âne renforcé , Je le rendre maître passé , Et veux qu'il porte la soutane . " The same fabulist's version of the Ass ...
... Coleridge somewhere says . La Fontaine's charlatan has no such compunctious visitings : " Que l'on m'amène un âne , un âne renforcé , Je le rendre maître passé , Et veux qu'il porte la soutane . " The same fabulist's version of the Ass ...
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... Coleridge affirms to be the direct contrast of it in every particular . For jealousy , he observes , is a vice of the mind , a culpable tendency of the temper , having certain well - known and well - defined effects and concomitants ...
... Coleridge affirms to be the direct contrast of it in every particular . For jealousy , he observes , is a vice of the mind , a culpable tendency of the temper , having certain well - known and well - defined effects and concomitants ...
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... Coleridge differentiates sharply the " solemn agony of the noble Moor , " as well from the morbid suspiciousness of Leonatus , who is , in other respects , a fine character , as from what he calls " the wretched fishing jealousies of ...
... Coleridge differentiates sharply the " solemn agony of the noble Moor , " as well from the morbid suspiciousness of Leonatus , who is , in other respects , a fine character , as from what he calls " the wretched fishing jealousies of ...
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Page 455 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 357 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 404 - Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 55 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 397 - O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, Tis heavy with him...
Page 55 - Of every hearer: for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 116 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 166 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 270 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 107 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...