Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to HamletDaldy, Isbister, & Company, 1877 - 479 pages |
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... truth which must ever be true , and of humour which must ever be humorous . Elsewhere he remarks that as in Homer all the deities are in armour , even Venus , so in Shakspeare all the characters are strong , -real folly and dulness ...
... truth which must ever be true , and of humour which must ever be humorous . Elsewhere he remarks that as in Homer all the deities are in armour , even Venus , so in Shakspeare all the characters are strong , -real folly and dulness ...
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... truth : it reposes in the cere- monials of wisdom ; a grave countenance , a venerable beard , a priestly costume , are the tests of a correct and capable instructor . So too , nearer home , " Braid claith lends folk an unco heeze ; Maks ...
... truth : it reposes in the cere- monials of wisdom ; a grave countenance , a venerable beard , a priestly costume , are the tests of a correct and capable instructor . So too , nearer home , " Braid claith lends folk an unco heeze ; Maks ...
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... truth ? Yes , that blue eye is mine , And I am pictured in thy every feature- Child of my love ! for such thou art - I fold thee Thus to my heart - thou art my own but even so saying , a dismal doubt overshadows the king : he fancies he ...
... truth ? Yes , that blue eye is mine , And I am pictured in thy every feature- Child of my love ! for such thou art - I fold thee Thus to my heart - thou art my own but even so saying , a dismal doubt overshadows the king : he fancies he ...
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... Truth dwells in thee - Thou art all radiant with it ! " And when the rascally tempter tells him , Iago- like , " Your highness sees how hinges fact on fact , " " No ! - I see nothing ! " replies Leonardo . So that , in fact , Charles ...
... Truth dwells in thee - Thou art all radiant with it ! " And when the rascally tempter tells him , Iago- like , " Your highness sees how hinges fact on fact , " " No ! - I see nothing ! " replies Leonardo . So that , in fact , Charles ...
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... truth she had uttered long before , " in the lines just quoted . The calm and complete comprehension of the fact is rightly said to be a possession painful yet precious to Hermione , which lifts her above all vulgar confusion of heart ...
... truth she had uttered long before , " in the lines just quoted . The calm and complete comprehension of the fact is rightly said to be a possession painful yet precious to Hermione , which lifts her above all vulgar confusion of heart ...
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actor admiration better blood blush called character Charles Charles Lamb Charles Reade Claudius colour critic dead death describes Desdemona doctors Dogberry Dowden drama dress dying effect exclaims eyes fancy father feeling Franz Horn French genius Ghost give Hamlet hand Hartley Coleridge hath head heart Hecuba Hermione hero honour Horatio human husband Iago imagination innocent jealousy King lady Laertes Leigh Hunt Leontes lips live look Lord Macbeth madness manner master master constable mind Molière Moor moral nature never night noble observes once Ophelia Othello passion perhaps person Philarète Chasles physician pity play poet poison Polonius poor Prince Professor Queen remarks Romeo Sainte-Beuve scene seems Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul speak speech spirit stage story tears teeth tell thee thing thou thought Tieck told tragedy truth utterance wife words young
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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...