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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... effect than those that precede it . And even if it be that these fifty - five lines are dramatically superfluous , who would willingly expunge them , when with them would be lost such lines as : ' Look what is done cannot be amended ...
... effect than those that precede it . And even if it be that these fifty - five lines are dramatically superfluous , who would willingly expunge them , when with them would be lost such lines as : ' Look what is done cannot be amended ...
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... effect ; her invectives bring up the horrors of the civil war with the liveli- ness that is required to give force to their sequel ; her penetration and denounce- ment of the nature and purposes of Richard heighten our sense of the ...
... effect ; her invectives bring up the horrors of the civil war with the liveli- ness that is required to give force to their sequel ; her penetration and denounce- ment of the nature and purposes of Richard heighten our sense of the ...
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... effect of duly pre - engaging our minds with the hero's active , fertile , scheming brain . — WARNER ( p . 208 ) : The soliloquies in Richard III . are a dramatic necessity . We could not get at the real man without them . But in the ...
... effect of duly pre - engaging our minds with the hero's active , fertile , scheming brain . — WARNER ( p . 208 ) : The soliloquies in Richard III . are a dramatic necessity . We could not get at the real man without them . But in the ...
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... effects characterized by the ad- jectives . - ED . ] 21. I , that am Rudely stampt ] ' Richarde the third sonne was in witte and courage egall with either of them , [ Edward and George Duke of Clarence ] in bodye and prowesse farre ...
... effects characterized by the ad- jectives . - ED . ] 21. I , that am Rudely stampt ] ' Richarde the third sonne was in witte and courage egall with either of them , [ Edward and George Duke of Clarence ] in bodye and prowesse farre ...
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... effect would have been as powerful , and the representation better suited to our ideas of human nature , had Richard , both here and in other scenes , given indications of his guilt rather by obscure hints and surmises , than by an open ...
... effect would have been as powerful , and the representation better suited to our ideas of human nature , had Richard , both here and in other scenes , given indications of his guilt rather by obscure hints and surmises , than by an open ...
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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.