An Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of ShakspereC. Mitchell, 1848 - 547 pages |
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... Duke , in Measure for Measure , he so eloquently painted the calamities of life , and made death preferable as the end of existence . It is said that he wrote it when midway between thirty and forty , the prime of life , when he could ...
... Duke , in Measure for Measure , he so eloquently painted the calamities of life , and made death preferable as the end of existence . It is said that he wrote it when midway between thirty and forty , the prime of life , when he could ...
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... Duke in As You Like It , put on a religious life , and thrown into neglect ' the pomps and vanities of this world . It is related of him that he was accustomed to pass his hours of conviviality at Stratford , with one Mr. Combe , who ...
... Duke in As You Like It , put on a religious life , and thrown into neglect ' the pomps and vanities of this world . It is related of him that he was accustomed to pass his hours of conviviality at Stratford , with one Mr. Combe , who ...
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... too conventional critics would allow themselves to read it . " Jaques is the philosopher of the play , and the chief moralist . The Duke follows him in the same line . Touch- stone is the witty fool , and Rosalind one of 36 EPITOME .
... too conventional critics would allow themselves to read it . " Jaques is the philosopher of the play , and the chief moralist . The Duke follows him in the same line . Touch- stone is the witty fool , and Rosalind one of 36 EPITOME .
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... Duke was converted . How little they had profited by the study of this play ! Shakspere had another moral to enforce . Jaques continues to the end the materialist of As You Like It . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . Marriage and irreverence ...
... Duke was converted . How little they had profited by the study of this play ! Shakspere had another moral to enforce . Jaques continues to the end the materialist of As You Like It . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . Marriage and irreverence ...
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... Duke . The Ten Commandments are the basis of a witticism ; and , in the speech of the Duke to Claudio , the reader will find sentiments respecting the rela- tion of parent and child , since adopted by Sir Charles Morgan and by the ...
... Duke . The Ten Commandments are the basis of a witticism ; and , in the speech of the Duke to Claudio , the reader will find sentiments respecting the rela- tion of parent and child , since adopted by Sir Charles Morgan and by the ...
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Page 146 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect...
Page 146 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
Page 206 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 136 - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault...
Page 155 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table: that 's the end.
Page 244 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure'd. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 426 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 180 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king: The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 357 - 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: a breath thou art...
Page 146 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to; 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.