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Page 92
... kind of knaves I know , which in this plainness Harbour more craft , and more corrupter ends , Than twenty silly ducking observants That stretch their duties nicely . The character of Lear is remarkably suited to tragedy , and highly ...
... kind of knaves I know , which in this plainness Harbour more craft , and more corrupter ends , Than twenty silly ducking observants That stretch their duties nicely . The character of Lear is remarkably suited to tragedy , and highly ...
Page 136
... kind of words , and turn of thought , or at least the application of it , which he him- self so often adopts . I would have broke mine eye - strings , crack'd them , but To look upon him , till the diminution Of space had pointed him ...
... kind of words , and turn of thought , or at least the application of it , which he him- self so often adopts . I would have broke mine eye - strings , crack'd them , but To look upon him , till the diminution Of space had pointed him ...
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... kind in the beginning of the scene of Edith and Rollo . There cannot be a more remarkable instance of break- ing the verse , than in the following passage from Flet- cher's Honest Man's Fortune , 1613 . Oh my lord , How has your nature ...
... kind in the beginning of the scene of Edith and Rollo . There cannot be a more remarkable instance of break- ing the verse , than in the following passage from Flet- cher's Honest Man's Fortune , 1613 . Oh my lord , How has your nature ...
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accented acted beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse blood break broken Cæsar cæsura called character Collier comedy Comedy of Errors comic conceits Coriolanus crown curious Cymbeline death delight doth double endings dramatic dull effect enumerative eyes Falstaff fancy Farewell father feeling Fletcher flowing fourth style friends gentle Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honour imitation instance Jonson Julius Cæsar kind King lines long speeches look lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Malone Marlow means merely Merry Wives metre mind nature never night observed old play Oldcastle Othello passage perhaps poems poet poetical poetry poor praise printed prose remarkable rhyme Richard Richard II Romeo scene seems Shake Shakespeare soliloquy sometimes Sonnets soul speak spirit sweet syllable taste tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tongue Tybalt unbroken unto versification weak endings words writer written