The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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... Night's Dream ; witches , and their attendant imps , will demand a lengthened notice in Macbeth ; aërial spirits in the Tem- pest ; and Hamlet drags the demons of darkness from their subterranean abodes . The doctrine of the middle ages ...
... Night's Dream ; witches , and their attendant imps , will demand a lengthened notice in Macbeth ; aërial spirits in the Tem- pest ; and Hamlet drags the demons of darkness from their subterranean abodes . The doctrine of the middle ages ...
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... night hideous ; " but an affair of deepest consequence , the dis- covery and punishment of a most horrible crime . The exact resemblance , therefore , of the apparition to the father of Hamlet is pressed into particular notice : Marcel ...
... night hideous ; " but an affair of deepest consequence , the dis- covery and punishment of a most horrible crime . The exact resemblance , therefore , of the apparition to the father of Hamlet is pressed into particular notice : Marcel ...
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... night , or darkness , as an apt symbol of the latter . Regarding light as a good , and dark- ness as a bad presage , the Greeks did not hold it lawful to approach their altars till lustration had purified them from the defilements of ...
... night , or darkness , as an apt symbol of the latter . Regarding light as a good , and dark- ness as a bad presage , the Greeks did not hold it lawful to approach their altars till lustration had purified them from the defilements of ...
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... night were assigned for their operation . An instance of Shakspeare's notice of this superstition occurred in A Midsum- mer Night's Dream , but in mentioning it in this play , in connection with another piece of popu- lar credulity ...
... night were assigned for their operation . An instance of Shakspeare's notice of this superstition occurred in A Midsum- mer Night's Dream , but in mentioning it in this play , in connection with another piece of popu- lar credulity ...
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... night long : And then , they say , no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike , No fairy takes , nor witch hath power to charm , So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . " † Such is , undoubtedly ...
... night long : And then , they say , no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike , No fairy takes , nor witch hath power to charm , So hallow'd and so gracious is the time . " † Such is , undoubtedly ...
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Página 191 - Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Página 81 - I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown.
Página 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Página 191 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 91 - Even to the very quality of my lord : I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; And to his honours, and his valiant parts, Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
Página 83 - Ay, there's the point : as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Página 113 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Página 23 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 110 - Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th
Página 47 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.