The Tragedies of ShakespeareModern Library, 1902 - 579 pages |
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... word be taken as the test of greatness , was Christopher Marlowe . From his Copyright , 1902 , by Harper and Brothers . All rights reserved . dead hand the one man born to excel him , and to pay a due and a deathless tribute to his ...
... word be taken as the test of greatness , was Christopher Marlowe . From his Copyright , 1902 , by Harper and Brothers . All rights reserved . dead hand the one man born to excel him , and to pay a due and a deathless tribute to his ...
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... word of indignantly reticent response is the key - note of all that fol- lows -- the spark which kindles into eter- nal life the most tragic of all tragedies in the world . All the yet unimaginable horror of the future becomes at once ...
... word of indignantly reticent response is the key - note of all that fol- lows -- the spark which kindles into eter- nal life the most tragic of all tragedies in the world . All the yet unimaginable horror of the future becomes at once ...
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... word that was in him - the word of witness against wrong done by oversight as well as by cruelty , by negli- gence as surely as by crime . These things were hidden from the marvellous wisdom of Hamlet , and revealed to the more mar ...
... word that was in him - the word of witness against wrong done by oversight as well as by cruelty , by negli- gence as surely as by crime . These things were hidden from the marvellous wisdom of Hamlet , and revealed to the more mar ...
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... word too sweet to lose- And lifted up Its beauty like a costly cup To hold our wine of joy . Oh time of pure And unreserved delight ! Who would not choose To cage you ere you fled ? Happy as girl and boy Were we , to think our treasury ...
... word too sweet to lose- And lifted up Its beauty like a costly cup To hold our wine of joy . Oh time of pure And unreserved delight ! Who would not choose To cage you ere you fled ? Happy as girl and boy Were we , to think our treasury ...
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... words which answers the half - heart- ed if not heartless inquiry , " How is't with aged Gaunt ? " is a more dramatic touch of homelier and nearer nature to which Coleridge has done no more than exact justice in his admirable com- ment ...
... words which answers the half - heart- ed if not heartless inquiry , " How is't with aged Gaunt ? " is a more dramatic touch of homelier and nearer nature to which Coleridge has done no more than exact justice in his admirable com- ment ...
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Page 680 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 683 - Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 744 - Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: We may outrun By violent swiftness that which we run at, And lose by overrunning.
Page 680 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Page 841 - That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that I still will stay with thee And never from this palace of dim night Depart again.
Page 830 - 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 ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 683 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends...
Page 864 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 796 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 785 - Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar...