The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth FieldLippincott, 1908 - 641 pages |
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... Holinshed are the sources whence SHAKESPEARE derives the plots of his Historical Plays , that a repetition of the assertion seems almost super- fluous . Indeed , these Chronicles were the basis of all the historical plays founded on the ...
... Holinshed are the sources whence SHAKESPEARE derives the plots of his Historical Plays , that a repetition of the assertion seems almost super- fluous . Indeed , these Chronicles were the basis of all the historical plays founded on the ...
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... Holinshed , who copied More . It is , I think , needless to discuss whence Holinshed derived his material . The sources of his Chronicles were , naturally , the works of his predecessors , and , for SHAKESPEARE , the question of their ...
... Holinshed , who copied More . It is , I think , needless to discuss whence Holinshed derived his material . The sources of his Chronicles were , naturally , the works of his predecessors , and , for SHAKESPEARE , the question of their ...
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... Holinshed , who systematically , and purposely , lightened the characters of all those in opposition to Richard III . Later historians give a different account of Elizabeth , describing her as utterly selfish and unscrupulous where the ...
... Holinshed , who systematically , and purposely , lightened the characters of all those in opposition to Richard III . Later historians give a different account of Elizabeth , describing her as utterly selfish and unscrupulous where the ...
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... Holinshed , not only are silent on the charge of Gloucester's having been the instigator of his brother's death , but admit that he impugned the rigour of the sentence passed upon Clarence . . . . Had Richard availed himself of his ...
... Holinshed , not only are silent on the charge of Gloucester's having been the instigator of his brother's death , but admit that he impugned the rigour of the sentence passed upon Clarence . . . . Had Richard availed himself of his ...
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... Holinshed , Edward IV . - OECHELHAÜSER ( Essay , p . 65 ) : These following lines reveal the weakest part of this soliloquy ; Shakespeare should at least have thought of a better motive for Edward's spite against Clarence . Holinshed ...
... Holinshed , Edward IV . - OECHELHAÜSER ( Essay , p . 65 ) : These following lines reveal the weakest part of this soliloquy ; Shakespeare should at least have thought of a better motive for Edward's spite against Clarence . Holinshed ...
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Page 329 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 241 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 297 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 192 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing...
Page 141 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 53 - But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 580 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 21 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Page 388 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII 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 561 - I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me! I am myself alone.