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Page 229
... writing he must either have a fool or a separate note- book . Perhaps he had a suspicion that the vote between the world . and the fool is in many cases like that between the world and the madman , merely the vote of the majority ...
... writing he must either have a fool or a separate note- book . Perhaps he had a suspicion that the vote between the world . and the fool is in many cases like that between the world and the madman , merely the vote of the majority ...
Page 241
... writer upon Shakspere is now universally acknowledged . There is none of all the prede- cessors of our great poet ... write , and it is to them that he owes so much in the liveliness of his dialogues , in smartness of expression , and ...
... writer upon Shakspere is now universally acknowledged . There is none of all the prede- cessors of our great poet ... write , and it is to them that he owes so much in the liveliness of his dialogues , in smartness of expression , and ...
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... writing public . The intellectual intercourse of the different European nations was suddenly augmented by the invention of printing . We note its influence at once in the fact that the sixteenth century was the first century in which ...
... writing public . The intellectual intercourse of the different European nations was suddenly augmented by the invention of printing . We note its influence at once in the fact that the sixteenth century was the first century in which ...
Page 247
... writer's devices . Expressions like " cloud of dark disdaine " were not familiar to the English poets before Surrey , but after him we find these trivial expressions repeated everywhere and abused XIII . DR LANDMANN . § 2 , ii ...
... writer's devices . Expressions like " cloud of dark disdaine " were not familiar to the English poets before Surrey , but after him we find these trivial expressions repeated everywhere and abused XIII . DR LANDMANN . § 2 , ii ...
Page 249
... writer of the sixteenth century , " this hunting the letter of the rake - helly rout of our ragged Rhymers , ” even Puttenham not allowing more than three alliterating words in the same line . But is not alliteration one of the main ...
... writer of the sixteenth century , " this hunting the letter of the rake - helly rout of our ragged Rhymers , ” even Puttenham not allowing more than three alliterating words in the same line . But is not alliteration one of the main ...
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Page 29 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 247 - A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Page 366 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 65 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 358 - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!
Page 360 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 59 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 361 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 355 - 11 blessing beg of you. For this same lord, [Pointing to Polonius. I do repent : but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister.
Page 40 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.