Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWells and Lilly, 1818 - 352 pages |
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... poor Desdemona , as it were , inside out . It is certain that nothing but the genius of Shak- speare could have preserved the entire interest and delicacy of the part , and have even drawn an ad- ditional elegance and dignity from the ...
... poor Desdemona , as it were , inside out . It is certain that nothing but the genius of Shak- speare could have preserved the entire interest and delicacy of the part , and have even drawn an ad- ditional elegance and dignity from the ...
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... poor citizens of Rome when they meet together to compare their wants and grievances , till Coriolanus comes in and with blows and big words drives this set of " poor rats , " this rascal scum , to their homes and beggary before him ...
... poor citizens of Rome when they meet together to compare their wants and grievances , till Coriolanus comes in and with blows and big words drives this set of " poor rats , " this rascal scum , to their homes and beggary before him ...
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... poor ; therefore they ought to be starved . They are slaves ; therefore they ought to be beaten . They work hard ; therefore they ought to be treated like beasts of burden . They are ignorant ; therefore they ought not to be allowed to ...
... poor ; therefore they ought to be starved . They are slaves ; therefore they ought to be beaten . They work hard ; therefore they ought to be treated like beasts of burden . They are ignorant ; therefore they ought not to be allowed to ...
Page 91
... poor suitor , to take thy chimney - hearth , not of any hope I have to save my life thereby . For if I had feared death , I would not have come hither to put myself in hazard : but pricked forward with desire to be revenged of them that ...
... poor suitor , to take thy chimney - hearth , not of any hope I have to save my life thereby . For if I had feared death , I would not have come hither to put myself in hazard : but pricked forward with desire to be revenged of them that ...
Page 92
... and determined not to speak , the state of our poor bodies , and present sight of our raiment , would easily betray to thee what life we have led at home , since thy exile and abode abroad ; but think now with thyself , 92 CORIOLANUS .
... and determined not to speak , the state of our poor bodies , and present sight of our raiment , would easily betray to thee what life we have led at home , since thy exile and abode abroad ; but think now with thyself , 92 CORIOLANUS .
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Page 214 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and, humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Page 41 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 99 - Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 240 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 237 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 322 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 131 - By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page 158 - ... by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Page 173 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 214 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.