On Renascence Drama: Or, History Made VisibleSands & McDougall, 1880 - 359 pages |
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... .. XV . TWELFTH NIGHT : OR , WHAT You WILL ... XVI . HAMLET ... ... 134 ... 143 ... 146 ... 155 ... 160 ... 168 182 ... ... 190 XVII . OTHELLO ... ... ... 217 260 ... 342 Ir is a thing indeed , if practised professionally ,
... .. XV . TWELFTH NIGHT : OR , WHAT You WILL ... XVI . HAMLET ... ... 134 ... 143 ... 146 ... 155 ... 160 ... 168 182 ... ... 190 XVII . OTHELLO ... ... ... 217 260 ... 342 Ir is a thing indeed , if practised professionally ,
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... Othello marking it too of the later sort , that when the play is over leave on the mind sadness without a ray of hope . The earlier group began while England reeled recovering political life after the terror reign of Mary Tudor , and ...
... Othello marking it too of the later sort , that when the play is over leave on the mind sadness without a ray of hope . The earlier group began while England reeled recovering political life after the terror reign of Mary Tudor , and ...
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... Othello , The Tempest , and others printed for the first time in 1623 , had long before appeared as novelties . But this involves the disputed point , and implies an affirmative of the assertions questioned . That Bacon could have been ...
... Othello , The Tempest , and others printed for the first time in 1623 , had long before appeared as novelties . But this involves the disputed point , and implies an affirmative of the assertions questioned . That Bacon could have been ...
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... Othello in 1621. About 1609 , Mathews bantered his friend on writing many things " under another name . " The practice was familiar , and fair , honourable , self - denying magnanimity . It is often painfully argued that the alleged ...
... Othello in 1621. About 1609 , Mathews bantered his friend on writing many things " under another name . " The practice was familiar , and fair , honourable , self - denying magnanimity . It is often painfully argued that the alleged ...
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... Othello in Sir Henry Herbert's long list of acted plays , so that if the play did exist earlier than 1621 , neither Court nor people made it very popular . Having , through the candour of editors , made a tabula rasa on spurious dates ...
... Othello in Sir Henry Herbert's long list of acted plays , so that if the play did exist earlier than 1621 , neither Court nor people made it very popular . Having , through the candour of editors , made a tabula rasa on spurious dates ...
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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.