Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... romance under the name of Troilus and Cressida will not carry the story a moment higher ; because this French romance is in fact nothing more than a much later performance , about the year 1400 , compiled by Pierre de Beauvau from the ...
... romance under the name of Troilus and Cressida will not carry the story a moment higher ; because this French romance is in fact nothing more than a much later performance , about the year 1400 , compiled by Pierre de Beauvau from the ...
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... romances on the war of Troy ; Lydgate contenting himself with referring to Chaucer . Of Raoul le Fevre's work , often printed , there is a fine MS . in the British museum , Bibl . Reg . 17 , E. II . , under the title of Hercules , that ...
... romances on the war of Troy ; Lydgate contenting himself with referring to Chaucer . Of Raoul le Fevre's work , often printed , there is a fine MS . in the British museum , Bibl . Reg . 17 , E. II . , under the title of Hercules , that ...
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... Romance of Sir Oluel . MS . " Even at the twelyght in the dawnynge Whan the larke of custome gynneth synge For to salue in her heavenly laye The lusty goddesse of the morowe graye . " Lydgate's Sege of Troye , B. i . " Whan the larke ...
... Romance of Sir Oluel . MS . " Even at the twelyght in the dawnynge Whan the larke of custome gynneth synge For to salue in her heavenly laye The lusty goddesse of the morowe graye . " Lydgate's Sege of Troye , B. i . " Whan the larke ...
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... what is this but to expose her own ignorance of ancient manners ? If she had missed the advantage of qualifying herself as a commentator on Shakspeare's plots by a perusal of our old romances , she ought at least to 104 CYMBELINE .
... what is this but to expose her own ignorance of ancient manners ? If she had missed the advantage of qualifying herself as a commentator on Shakspeare's plots by a perusal of our old romances , she ought at least to 104 CYMBELINE .
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... romances , she ought at least to have remembered , what every well informed woman of the present age is acquainted with , the educa- tion of the princesses in Homer's Odyssey . It is idle to attempt to judge of ancient simplicity by a ...
... romances , she ought at least to have remembered , what every well informed woman of the present age is acquainted with , the educa- tion of the princesses in Homer's Odyssey . It is idle to attempt to judge of ancient simplicity by a ...
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Página 85 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man : the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing.
Página 200 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Página 272 - 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 ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 86 - I'll leave you, lady. Cleo. Courteous lord, one word. Sir, you and I must part, — but that's not it: Sir, you and I have lov'd, — but there's not it; That you know well : Something it is I would, — O, my oblivion is a very Antony, And I am all forgotten.
Página 82 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Página 168 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Página 167 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
Página 185 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 250 - ... would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 245 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.