Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on His Genius and Writings; a New Chronology of His Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of His Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs, Amusement, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 |
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... feeling of Lord South- ampton , would naturally be attracted ; and the donation which , in all probability , followed the dedication of Venus and Adonis , we have reason , from the voice of tradition , to conclude , was succeeded by ...
... feeling of Lord South- ampton , would naturally be attracted ; and the donation which , in all probability , followed the dedication of Venus and Adonis , we have reason , from the voice of tradition , to conclude , was succeeded by ...
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... feeling heart , we shall now attempt , by a series of extracts , to prove . The description of the sun in his course , his rising , meridian altitude , and setting , and his influence over the human mind , are enlivened by imagery ...
... feeling heart , we shall now attempt , by a series of extracts , to prove . The description of the sun in his course , his rising , meridian altitude , and setting , and his influence over the human mind , are enlivened by imagery ...
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... feeling pity , And be not of my holy vows afraid . ” After relating , rather too circumstantially , the arts and hypocrisy which had been exercised for her ruin , she bursts into the following exclamation : - " O father , what a hell of ...
... feeling pity , And be not of my holy vows afraid . ” After relating , rather too circumstantially , the arts and hypocrisy which had been exercised for her ruin , she bursts into the following exclamation : - " O father , what a hell of ...
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... feeling a mingled emotion of wonder and disgust ? who can , in short , forbear a smile of derision and contempt at the folly of such a declaration ? And lastly , when he assures us , that the strongest act of parliament that could be ...
... feeling a mingled emotion of wonder and disgust ? who can , in short , forbear a smile of derision and contempt at the folly of such a declaration ? And lastly , when he assures us , that the strongest act of parliament that could be ...
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... feelings of pro- perty , as when she sate down beneath the roof of what might more strictly be termed her own palaces . That her subjects were com- plaisant enough to acquiesce in this assumption , is evident from a passage in ...
... feelings of pro- perty , as when she sate down beneath the roof of what might more strictly be termed her own palaces . That her subjects were com- plaisant enough to acquiesce in this assumption , is evident from a passage in ...
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Page 151 - A strange fish! 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 515 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell Burthen Ding-dong Hark!
Page 447 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 369 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 27 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 79 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 405 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! — Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee...
Page 79 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour, which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
Page 84 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 492 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.