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... play - a play so incomparably silly and sordid in plot and persons that you wonder how anybody could be found to write or to describe it . " You take up the modern novel , good , bad , or indifferent , and it is so obsessed with the ...
... play - a play so incomparably silly and sordid in plot and persons that you wonder how anybody could be found to write or to describe it . " You take up the modern novel , good , bad , or indifferent , and it is so obsessed with the ...
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... playing too crass an ignorance on an occasional excursion to the play . One gentleman went even so far as to hazard the observation that he never read Shakespeare , as there were so many common sayings in him . Surely no greater ...
... playing too crass an ignorance on an occasional excursion to the play . One gentleman went even so far as to hazard the observation that he never read Shakespeare , as there were so many common sayings in him . Surely no greater ...
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... play has made , to English ears at any rate , a rather un- accountable error . He fixes the age of Juliet at fourteen years , or under . Now no man , or no youth , unless his nature were abnormal or diseased , would have com- mitted ...
... play has made , to English ears at any rate , a rather un- accountable error . He fixes the age of Juliet at fourteen years , or under . Now no man , or no youth , unless his nature were abnormal or diseased , would have com- mitted ...
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... . Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare , and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last , with PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 25.
... . Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare , and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last , with PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 25.
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Herbert Morse. play from the first scene to the last , with the utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention is strongly engaged , let it ...
Herbert Morse. play from the first scene to the last , with the utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention is strongly engaged , let it ...
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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 94 - Get thee to a nunnery ; Why would'st 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...
Page 133 - 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 202 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
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 228 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 195 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
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...