King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 43
... nature ' and ' pieces of ancient granite ' , and the image was present too in the nineteenth - century historicised settings , when Macready and Charles Kean had used Druid stone circles literally and decoratively , and Irving had made ...
... nature ' and ' pieces of ancient granite ' , and the image was present too in the nineteenth - century historicised settings , when Macready and Charles Kean had used Druid stone circles literally and decoratively , and Irving had made ...
Page 82
... nature can reason it thus and thus , yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent * effects : love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond ...
... nature can reason it thus and thus , yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent * effects : love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond ...
Page 220
... Nature art my goddess , to thy law My services are bound ; why am I then Deprived of a son's right , because I came not In the dull road that custom has prescribed ? Why bastard , wherefore base , when I can boast A Mind as gen'rous ...
... Nature art my goddess , to thy law My services are bound ; why am I then Deprived of a son's right , because I came not In the dull road that custom has prescribed ? Why bastard , wherefore base , when I can boast A Mind as gen'rous ...
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