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... heart desire . And here let it be stated at once that the author has no intention , even if he were capable of doing so , of writing a work , after the manner of Professor Dowden , on the " Mind and Art " of Shakespeare . The ...
... heart desire . And here let it be stated at once that the author has no intention , even if he were capable of doing so , of writing a work , after the manner of Professor Dowden , on the " Mind and Art " of Shakespeare . The ...
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... heart . Again in most of the great tragedies , such as Hamlet , Macbeth , King Lear , Julius Cæsar , and the like , there is little of love to be discovered . Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are not properly love poems at all , but ...
... heart . Again in most of the great tragedies , such as Hamlet , Macbeth , King Lear , Julius Cæsar , and the like , there is little of love to be discovered . Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are not properly love poems at all , but ...
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... heart of England , he is bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh . His language is direct and simple , rarely involved and obscure . Some passages in his works may not be immediately apparent , there may be difficulties and ...
... heart of England , he is bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh . His language is direct and simple , rarely involved and obscure . Some passages in his works may not be immediately apparent , there may be difficulties and ...
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... hearts of men and women . ' As regards the arrangement of the following pages the author claims for them a certain sequence and chronologi- cal order , though he is painfully aware that there is a lack of proportion and unity in the ...
... hearts of men and women . ' As regards the arrangement of the following pages the author claims for them a certain sequence and chronologi- cal order , though he is painfully aware that there is a lack of proportion and unity in the ...
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... heart could long have been satisfied or found any companionship with a mere country wench , whatever may have been her early and youthful attractions . Moreover , there are certain indications in his writings , as many critics have ...
... heart could long have been satisfied or found any companionship with a mere country wench , whatever may have been her early and youthful attractions . Moreover , there are certain indications in his writings , as many critics have ...
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Page 95 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Page 36 - O ! there be players, that I have seen play — and heard others praise, and that highly— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 135 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 93 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers...
Page 121 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 12 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 66 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 225 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 100 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 94 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.