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Page 17
... perfect gem . We can only say : He was . " It hath been taught us from the primal state That he which is was wished until he were . " IV . IN Shakespeare's time the actor was a vagabond , the dramatist a disreputable person and yet the ...
... perfect gem . We can only say : He was . " It hath been taught us from the primal state That he which is was wished until he were . " IV . IN Shakespeare's time the actor was a vagabond , the dramatist a disreputable person and yet the ...
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... perfect free- dom of the highest art . He did not write according to rules — but smaller men make rules from what he wrote . How fortunate that Shakespeare was not educated at Oxford that the winged god within him never knelt to the ...
... perfect free- dom of the highest art . He did not write according to rules — but smaller men make rules from what he wrote . How fortunate that Shakespeare was not educated at Oxford that the winged god within him never knelt to the ...
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... perfect Roman , and as you read , the mighty ruins rise and the Eternal City once again becomes the mistress of the world . No play is more Egyptian than " Antony and Cleo- patra"— the Nile runs through it , the shadows of the pyramids ...
... perfect Roman , and as you read , the mighty ruins rise and the Eternal City once again becomes the mistress of the world . No play is more Egyptian than " Antony and Cleo- patra"— the Nile runs through it , the shadows of the pyramids ...
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... brain on the door - step of Shakes- peare , and kept the deformed ones at home ? Is it possible that he fathered the failures and deserted the perfect ? Of course , it is wonderful that so little has SHAKESPEARE . 29.
... brain on the door - step of Shakes- peare , and kept the deformed ones at home ? Is it possible that he fathered the failures and deserted the perfect ? Of course , it is wonderful that so little has SHAKESPEARE . 29.
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... perfect type , a perfect hypocrite— and will remain a type as long as language lives — a hypocrite that even drunkenness could not change . Everybody understands Pecksniff , and compared with him Tartuffe was an honest man . Hamlet is ...
... perfect type , a perfect hypocrite— and will remain a type as long as language lives — a hypocrite that even drunkenness could not change . Everybody understands Pecksniff , and compared with him Tartuffe was an honest man . Hamlet is ...
Contents
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GenerationSlaveryPrinciple Sacrificed to SuccessLincolns | 173 |
stealing ChildrenII The Days of YouthHis EducationChooses | 248 |
The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives | 308 |
MartyrdomThe First to die for Truth without Expectation of | 395 |
BibleEstablishment of the Mosaic CodeMoses not the Author | 519 |
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Page 93 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 296 - Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong...
Page 61 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 42 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Ban. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his lov'd mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd The air is delicate.
Page 295 - Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all...
Page 58 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 159 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 67 - I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.— Cleo.