On Renascence Drama: Or, History Made VisibleSands & McDougall, 1880 - 359 pages |
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... Olivia . " " Penelope Devereux Lettice Knollys Viola " " 99 Maria . 99 " " To identify these leading characters will suffice for the argument without dealing with minor parts ; only adding that the date is 1584 , not 1598 ; and the ...
... Olivia . " " Penelope Devereux Lettice Knollys Viola " " 99 Maria . 99 " " To identify these leading characters will suffice for the argument without dealing with minor parts ; only adding that the date is 1584 , not 1598 ; and the ...
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... Olivia's garden to gull Malvolio , in whom Raleigh is identified . Young , Young , gay , and dressy , jewelled at every purpoint , he yet seemed a discreet man , though prone to reprove . An uppish manner made him hated . He became a ...
... Olivia's garden to gull Malvolio , in whom Raleigh is identified . Young , Young , gay , and dressy , jewelled at every purpoint , he yet seemed a discreet man , though prone to reprove . An uppish manner made him hated . He became a ...
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... Olivia . A brave warrior , who had fought hard aforetime , he was of brusque , blurting , belching , jovial nature , ever ready for practical jocularity , as in setting on a bevy of maids of honour in pranks on pretentious folks , like ...
... Olivia . A brave warrior , who had fought hard aforetime , he was of brusque , blurting , belching , jovial nature , ever ready for practical jocularity , as in setting on a bevy of maids of honour in pranks on pretentious folks , like ...
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... Olivia . By a poetical freedom Olivia is twice styled " fair princess , " whose " sovereign thrones may be " fill'd with one self king ; " to whom is brought " no overture of war , " and " no taxation of homage , " and who might be ...
... Olivia . By a poetical freedom Olivia is twice styled " fair princess , " whose " sovereign thrones may be " fill'd with one self king ; " to whom is brought " no overture of war , " and " no taxation of homage , " and who might be ...
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... Olivia's near kinsman Sir Toby , and Elizabeth's other near kinsman Sir Francis Knollys , had both heard their kinswoman vow " she'll never match above her degree , neither in estate , years , nor wit ; " precisely as did the author of ...
... Olivia's near kinsman Sir Toby , and Elizabeth's other near kinsman Sir Francis Knollys , had both heard their kinswoman vow " she'll never match above her degree , neither in estate , years , nor wit ; " precisely as did the author of ...
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Page 121 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 201 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 290 - 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 17 - Have gloz'd, but superficially, not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy : The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Page 205 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Page 128 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...
Page 89 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 5 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 122 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 289 - If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.