Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His WorksJ. Bohn, 1838 - 306 pages |
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... KNOWLedge 145 HIS DRAMATIC KNOWLEDGE AND ART 156 HE NEVER WAS A FLATTERER 183 HIS LOVE OF FAME 195 - HIS MORAL CHARACTER HIS DRAMAS - Two GENTLemen of VerONA HENRY THE SIXTH , first part PERICLES - 200 225 230 - 240 241 viii HENRY THE ...
... KNOWLedge 145 HIS DRAMATIC KNOWLEDGE AND ART 156 HE NEVER WAS A FLATTERER 183 HIS LOVE OF FAME 195 - HIS MORAL CHARACTER HIS DRAMAS - Two GENTLemen of VerONA HENRY THE SIXTH , first part PERICLES - 200 225 230 - 240 241 viii HENRY THE ...
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... knowledge or of natural capacity , or in the consequences of some over- whelming passion . He never afflicts us by too high , or by too low an estimate of human nature ; for either is afflicting . Acting up to his own text , he sees ...
... knowledge or of natural capacity , or in the consequences of some over- whelming passion . He never afflicts us by too high , or by too low an estimate of human nature ; for either is afflicting . Acting up to his own text , he sees ...
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... knowledge , possessed by every one , of human nature , has always appeared to me baffled and contradicted by the early life , as it has been given to us , of Shakespeare . It is in vain to say his extraordinary powers must be at ...
... knowledge , possessed by every one , of human nature , has always appeared to me baffled and contradicted by the early life , as it has been given to us , of Shakespeare . It is in vain to say his extraordinary powers must be at ...
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... knowledge within his reach , and feeding his mind into vigour by exertion , while he strove to imitate his " English Seneca , " or while he wrote his Venus and Adonis . This poem , dedicated to the Earl of Southampton in 1593 , and ...
... knowledge within his reach , and feeding his mind into vigour by exertion , while he strove to imitate his " English Seneca , " or while he wrote his Venus and Adonis . This poem , dedicated to the Earl of Southampton in 1593 , and ...
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... knowledge of his character . For this reason I shall spare no pains in a minute in- vestigation , confiding throughout in the interest of his lovers on such a theme . My explanation will , I hope , be satisfactory , while I allow it ...
... knowledge of his character . For this reason I shall spare no pains in a minute in- vestigation , confiding throughout in the interest of his lovers on such a theme . My explanation will , I hope , be satisfactory , while I allow it ...
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Page 65 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 32 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 188 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix Her ashes new create another heir As great in admiration as herself, So shall she leave her blessedness to one...
Page 154 - Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 71 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 74 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 29 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 2 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 80 - How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name...
Page 295 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.