Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamAmerican Book Company, 1903 - 230 páginas |
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... whole episode ( if it may be termed so ) of Helena and Hermia and their lovers , certainly partake of the taste and manner of the more juvenile comedies [ Love's Labour's Lost , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , etc. ] , while in other ...
... whole episode ( if it may be termed so ) of Helena and Hermia and their lovers , certainly partake of the taste and manner of the more juvenile comedies [ Love's Labour's Lost , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , etc. ] , while in other ...
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... whole it is the most exquisite , the daintiest , and most fanciful creation that exists in poetry , and abounds in passages worthy even of Shakespeare in his full maturity , it also contains whole scenes which are hardly worthy of his ...
... whole it is the most exquisite , the daintiest , and most fanciful creation that exists in poetry , and abounds in passages worthy even of Shakespeare in his full maturity , it also contains whole scenes which are hardly worthy of his ...
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... whole character , and of a class by itself . . . . It stands by itself , without any parallel ; for The Tempest , which it resembles in its pre- ternatural personages and machinery of the plot , is in other respects wholly dissimilar ...
... whole character , and of a class by itself . . . . It stands by itself , without any parallel ; for The Tempest , which it resembles in its pre- ternatural personages and machinery of the plot , is in other respects wholly dissimilar ...
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... whole poem is redolent with imaginative beauty , and the tribute to Shakespeare is one that he himself would have been delighted to accept . The title of the play of course does not refer to the time of the action , which is the closing ...
... whole poem is redolent with imaginative beauty , and the tribute to Shakespeare is one that he himself would have been delighted to accept . The title of the play of course does not refer to the time of the action , which is the closing ...
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... whole quire hold their hips and laugh , And waxen in their mirth , and neeze , and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there . | But , room , fairy ! here comes Oberon . Fairy . And here my mistress . Would that he were gone ! Enter ...
... whole quire hold their hips and laugh , And waxen in their mirth , and neeze , and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there . | But , room , fairy ! here comes Oberon . Fairy . And here my mistress . Would that he were gone ! Enter ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 56 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Página 51 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página 149 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Página 51 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 49 - The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set...
Página 108 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Página 137 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 51 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 24 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Página 169 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...