Shakspere: Personal RecollectionsBroadway Publishing Company, 1904 - 306 pages |
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Page vi
... mind will not understand , yet I only contract with the present and future generations to give rare and rich food for thought , and cannot undertake to furnish the reader brains with each book ! J. A. J. CONTENTS . Sweepstakes CHAPTER ...
... mind will not understand , yet I only contract with the present and future generations to give rare and rich food for thought , and cannot undertake to furnish the reader brains with each book ! J. A. J. CONTENTS . Sweepstakes CHAPTER ...
Page ix
... mind of man and Nature , and sunk his intellectual plummet deeper into the ocean of thought than any mortal that ever lived , before or after his glorious advent upon the earth . He was a universal ocean of knowledge , and the ebb and ...
... mind of man and Nature , and sunk his intellectual plummet deeper into the ocean of thought than any mortal that ever lived , before or after his glorious advent upon the earth . He was a universal ocean of knowledge , and the ebb and ...
Page xiii
... mind of Shakspere , who paid little attention to the princes and philosophers of his day . Schools , universities , monks , priests and popes were rungs in the ladder of his mind , and only noticed to scar and satirize their hypocrisy ...
... mind of Shakspere , who paid little attention to the princes and philosophers of his day . Schools , universities , monks , priests and popes were rungs in the ladder of his mind , and only noticed to scar and satirize their hypocrisy ...
Page xiv
... mind , with a judicial soul , and controlled his temper with the same inflexible rule that Nature uses when mur- muring in zephyrs or shrieking in storms , receding or advancing in dramatic thought , as peace or passion demanded . He ...
... mind , with a judicial soul , and controlled his temper with the same inflexible rule that Nature uses when mur- muring in zephyrs or shrieking in storms , receding or advancing in dramatic thought , as peace or passion demanded . He ...
Page xv
... mind of an audience like Shakspere , for , over the crude thoughts of other dramatic writers he threw the glamour of his divine imagination , making the shrubs , vines and briers of life bloom into perpetual flowers of pleasure and ...
... mind of an audience like Shakspere , for , over the crude thoughts of other dramatic writers he threw the glamour of his divine imagination , making the shrubs , vines and briers of life bloom into perpetual flowers of pleasure and ...
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Page 268 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 126 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend : and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Page 182 - Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say "Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 171 - More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Page 180 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 123 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak: for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 99 - But, soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — [Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 121 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 252 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round...
Page 217 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!