System of Shakespeare's Dramas, Volume 1G. T. Jones, 1877 |
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action Alcibiades Antonio Apemantus appears assails Banquo become Brabantio brought character collision Comedy Comedy of Situation comic complete conduct conflict conscious contradiction Cordelia daughter death deception deed delusion Desdemona destroy disguise drama element emotion essential ethical principle Ethical World exhibits existence external fact faithless Family father feelings Fortinbras Ghost gives Gloster guilt Hamlet hand hence Hero husband Iago imagination individual institutions instrument internal Juliet King Laertes latter Lear logical lovers Macbeth madness Malvolio manifest marriage means mediation ment mind moral motive murder nature object Olivia Othello parent passion perish person phase play Poet Polonius Portia portrayed punishment purpose rational reality realm relation repentance result retribution Romeo Romeo and Juliet second movement second thread seeks seems Shakespeare Shakespearian Shylock side spirit struggle subjective subordinate suitors supreme comic thought Timon tion Tragedy tragic true unity Viola violation Weird Sisters whole wholly wife woman wrong
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Page 221 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! Ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 312 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — • It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 202 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 263 - And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about: So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd cause ; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver.
Page 180 - We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor : This even-handed justice Commends11 the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 334 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 253 - tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard, But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Page 312 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 11 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 246 - I'll look up;] My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?