Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamAmerican Book Company, 1903 - 230 páginas |
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... Shakespeare's comedies . In its present form it is the bright consummate flower of this group , but. THE HISTORY OF THE PLAY " I WILL ROAR , " ETC. ( Scene 2. 9 INTRODUCTION TO A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM The History of the Play 96.
... Shakespeare's comedies . In its present form it is the bright consummate flower of this group , but. THE HISTORY OF THE PLAY " I WILL ROAR , " ETC. ( Scene 2. 9 INTRODUCTION TO A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM The History of the Play 96.
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... present shape , " and that it " was subsequently remodeled , after a long interval , with the addition of the heroic personages , and all the dia- logue between Oberon and Titania , . . . the rhyming dialogue and the whole perplexity of ...
... present shape , " and that it " was subsequently remodeled , after a long interval , with the addition of the heroic personages , and all the dia- logue between Oberon and Titania , . . . the rhyming dialogue and the whole perplexity of ...
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... present us with any of their tragedies , because we had enough of that in ernest ; and comedies , because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented ; then all that we could divert ourselves with were these humours and ...
... present us with any of their tragedies , because we had enough of that in ernest ; and comedies , because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented ; then all that we could divert ourselves with were these humours and ...
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... present a noble patron with a wedding tribute in the form of a play in which love is made a subject for laughter and represented only from a comic aspect , and where even the marriage feast of Theseus appears in a comic light , owing to ...
... present a noble patron with a wedding tribute in the form of a play in which love is made a subject for laughter and represented only from a comic aspect , and where even the marriage feast of Theseus appears in a comic light , owing to ...
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... present passage the falling of Cupid's arrow upon the flower appears to have no other purpose than to suggest how the flower got its magic potency . The reference to the mermaid and the stars shooting from their spheres was not ...
... present passage the falling of Cupid's arrow upon the flower appears to have no other purpose than to suggest how the flower got its magic potency . The reference to the mermaid and the stars shooting from their spheres was not ...
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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...