Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to HamletDaldy, Isbister, & Company, 1877 - 479 pages |
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... Professor , it appears , went steadily on ; Dumont slept audibly ; the Professor was deaf to every sound but that of his own voice , and Madame was in despair . The Professor coming to the end of an eloquent chapter , declaimed with ...
... Professor , it appears , went steadily on ; Dumont slept audibly ; the Professor was deaf to every sound but that of his own voice , and Madame was in despair . The Professor coming to the end of an eloquent chapter , declaimed with ...
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... Professor ( Daniel ) Wilson , in his Prehistoric Annals of Scotland , takes occasion to remind us that Scottish historians have not always been content to set out from a period as early as that presented by archæology . Wyntoun begins ...
... Professor ( Daniel ) Wilson , in his Prehistoric Annals of Scotland , takes occasion to remind us that Scottish historians have not always been content to set out from a period as early as that presented by archæology . Wyntoun begins ...
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... Professor Dowden , who speaks of the jealous passion of Leontes as " hideously grotesque , " accepts as a fact , never- theless , that the heart of the king is at length instructed and purified by anguish and remorse . He has ...
... Professor Dowden , who speaks of the jealous passion of Leontes as " hideously grotesque , " accepts as a fact , never- theless , that the heart of the king is at length instructed and purified by anguish and remorse . He has ...
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... Professor Dowden , is equal to her courage , had perceived that her husband laboured under a delusion which was cruel and calamitous to himself : from the first she transcends all blind resentment , and has true pity for the man who ...
... Professor Dowden , is equal to her courage , had perceived that her husband laboured under a delusion which was cruel and calamitous to himself : from the first she transcends all blind resentment , and has true pity for the man who ...
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... Professor Wilson with another query : How long would such critics have had her stand out ? Four years ? six ? eight ? Shakspeare chose sixteen ; and Wilson deems him right in so choosing , if for no other reason than to bring to her ...
... Professor Wilson with another query : How long would such critics have had her stand out ? Four years ? six ? eight ? Shakspeare chose sixteen ; and Wilson deems him right in so choosing , if for no other reason than to bring to her ...
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Page 455 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 357 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 404 - Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 55 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 397 - O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, Tis heavy with him...
Page 55 - Of every hearer: for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 116 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 166 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 270 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 107 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...