Comedy (continued). Historical dramaG.T. Jones and Company, 1877 |
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... gives out that he has gone to Poland ; but he must remain in the country to watch an experiment whose suc- cess he does not regard as absolutely certain , if he be true to his sense of duty and his benevolent character . He cannot ...
... gives out that he has gone to Poland ; but he must remain in the country to watch an experiment whose suc- cess he does not regard as absolutely certain , if he be true to his sense of duty and his benevolent character . He cannot ...
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... gives rise to the leading incidents of the play . Its persons differ from the persons of the first group in the fact that both parties men and women- have fidelity , but have lost chastity — that is , they are true to one another ...
... gives rise to the leading incidents of the play . Its persons differ from the persons of the first group in the fact that both parties men and women- have fidelity , but have lost chastity — that is , they are true to one another ...
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... gives an indignant refusal . Let us consider , for a moment , the logical bearing of these two scenes . Virgin innocence comes to plead for incontinence . Isabella feels the conflict within herself in making such a plea , but , on the ...
... gives an indignant refusal . Let us consider , for a moment , the logical bearing of these two scenes . Virgin innocence comes to plead for incontinence . Isabella feels the conflict within herself in making such a plea , but , on the ...
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... gives only a negative solution to the problem of sin ; it makes the world holy by destroy- ing it . Man is , hence , not likely to remain contented Iwith the solution . The Reformation struck at celibacy and attempted to sanctify the ...
... gives only a negative solution to the problem of sin ; it makes the world holy by destroy- ing it . Man is , hence , not likely to remain contented Iwith the solution . The Reformation struck at celibacy and attempted to sanctify the ...
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... gives its distinctive characteristic ; it is the true poetic element , which no analysis can reach , and which can only be felt . For the poetry , therefore , the reader must go to the poem ; criticism may unfold the thought which is ...
... gives its distinctive characteristic ; it is the true poetic element , which no analysis can reach , and which can only be felt . For the poetry , therefore , the reader must go to the poem ; criticism may unfold the thought which is ...
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Page 248 - How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — That; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 150 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 207 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 125 - But all the story of the night told over And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever, strange, and admirable.
Page 291 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 386 - To lead out many to the Holy Land; Lest rest, and lying still, might make them look Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course, to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.
Page 365 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 378 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 453 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 250 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus ; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities : And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatch'd, would as his kind grow mischievous ; And kill him in the shell.