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... soul ! was wont to say that there was no play without a fool and a Devil in ' t : he was for the Devil still , God bless him ! The Devil for his money , he would say ; I would fain see the Devil . " Nearer to the modern Play than either ...
... soul ! was wont to say that there was no play without a fool and a Devil in ' t : he was for the Devil still , God bless him ! The Devil for his money , he would say ; I would fain see the Devil . " Nearer to the modern Play than either ...
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... soul between the diabolical and the di- vine . The characters of Faustus and Mephistopheles are both conceived with great depth and strength of imagination ; and the last scene of the play , exhibiting His the agony of supernatural ...
... soul between the diabolical and the di- vine . The characters of Faustus and Mephistopheles are both conceived with great depth and strength of imagination ; and the last scene of the play , exhibiting His the agony of supernatural ...
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... soul , is not without touches of sublimity . There is one line , especially , which is loaded with meaning and suggestiveness , that in which harbor- ing for a moment the possibility of salvation amid the gathering horrors of his doom ...
... soul , is not without touches of sublimity . There is one line , especially , which is loaded with meaning and suggestiveness , that in which harbor- ing for a moment the possibility of salvation amid the gathering horrors of his doom ...
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... internal facts is made , the most obscure of men passes into the most notoricus . For this person- ality and soul we call Shakespeare , the recorded inci- - dents of whose outward career were so few and 2 * с SHAKESPEARE . 33.
... internal facts is made , the most obscure of men passes into the most notoricus . For this person- ality and soul we call Shakespeare , the recorded inci- - dents of whose outward career were so few and 2 * с SHAKESPEARE . 33.
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... experience which this man could not share , escaping , in an instant , from the shattered brain of Lear , or the hag - haunted imagination of Macbeth , in order to feel the tender flutter of her soul in 34 SHAKESPEARE .
... experience which this man could not share , escaping , in an instant , from the shattered brain of Lear , or the hag - haunted imagination of Macbeth , in order to feel the tender flutter of her soul in 34 SHAKESPEARE .
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Page 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes 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 a country.
Page 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Page 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.