Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and GeniusH. Colburn, 1828 - 494 pages |
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... presents itself - a few plants which may be gathered anywhere - a few shells or pebbles which may be picked up on the sea ... present day , than it has been at any former period . Hence also it may be inferred , that being a pursuit ...
... presents itself - a few plants which may be gathered anywhere - a few shells or pebbles which may be picked up on the sea ... present day , than it has been at any former period . Hence also it may be inferred , that being a pursuit ...
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... present existing . Though there are several highly respectable British Periodicals , in which the subject of Natural History , in common with almost every other Science , finds a place ; and though there is the " Zoological Journal ...
... present existing . Though there are several highly respectable British Periodicals , in which the subject of Natural History , in common with almost every other Science , finds a place ; and though there is the " Zoological Journal ...
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... the vast preponderance of examples under No. 13 , ought and must , I should think , decide all doubts both as to the spelling and pronunciation . present volume , that of these modes a selection from PREFATORY ESSAY . 5.
... the vast preponderance of examples under No. 13 , ought and must , I should think , decide all doubts both as to the spelling and pronunciation . present volume , that of these modes a selection from PREFATORY ESSAY . 5.
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Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius Nathan Drake. present volume , that of these modes a selection from the last almost entirely occupies its pages ; but before we proceed any farther in relation to its construction , it may not be ...
Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius Nathan Drake. present volume , that of these modes a selection from the last almost entirely occupies its pages ; but before we proceed any farther in relation to its construction , it may not be ...
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... present day , sullied the labours of the commentators on our elder dramatic poesy ; and , above all , is it to be deplored that Shakspeare , whose character was remarkable for its suavity and benevolence , who has seldom been mentioned ...
... present day , sullied the labours of the commentators on our elder dramatic poesy ; and , above all , is it to be deplored that Shakspeare , whose character was remarkable for its suavity and benevolence , who has seldom been mentioned ...
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Page 468 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 406 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 300 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 181 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 187 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 315 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 302 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 169 - 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 348 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 211 - What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...