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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... doubt its actual existence . MALONE is the earliest to assign a Date of Composition to the present play , and placed it in 1597 , in the same year with the First Quarto . Thus it appears in his Chronological Order of all the plays , in ...
... doubt its actual existence . MALONE is the earliest to assign a Date of Composition to the present play , and placed it in 1597 , in the same year with the First Quarto . Thus it appears in his Chronological Order of all the plays , in ...
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... doubt that the mis- take was Shakespeare's , and an editor is not justifiable in substituting what his author should have written for what he did write . But as the personage in ques- tion is called Stanley thirteen times during the ...
... doubt that the mis- take was Shakespeare's , and an editor is not justifiable in substituting what his author should have written for what he did write . But as the personage in ques- tion is called Stanley thirteen times during the ...
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... doubt that by the lascivious pleasing of a lute , ' he is directly alluded to . The subsequent description likewise that Richard gives of himself is in comparison with the king . Johnson thought the image of war capering ' poetical ...
... doubt that by the lascivious pleasing of a lute , ' he is directly alluded to . The subsequent description likewise that Richard gives of himself is in comparison with the king . Johnson thought the image of war capering ' poetical ...
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... doubt whether ' we could ever accustom ourselves to seeing Melpomene's dagger converted into a butcher's knife . ' He doubted , justly enough , the psychological possibility of the phrase ' I am determined to prove a villain ' ; but ...
... doubt whether ' we could ever accustom ourselves to seeing Melpomene's dagger converted into a butcher's knife . ' He doubted , justly enough , the psychological possibility of the phrase ' I am determined to prove a villain ' ; but ...
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... doubt , I think , that the copy which the corrector used , at least as far as this passage is concerned , was one of the later Qq , probably the Third . [ By ' the corrector ' Pickersgill here refers to the author of certain changes in ...
... doubt , I think , that the copy which the corrector used , at least as far as this passage is concerned , was one of the later Qq , probably the Third . [ By ' the corrector ' Pickersgill here refers to the author of certain changes in ...
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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 321 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 192 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing...
Page 386 - 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...
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 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 578 - 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 386 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 559 - 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.