The World's Progress ...W.B. Conkey Company, 1913 |
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The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian ... Delphian Society Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
Acres actors Alceste Athaliah Aubrey Baron Ludwig Beata beauty birds Bridgenorth Caiaphas called Chimène comedy court Cyrano daughter dear death devil doth drama duke earth eyes father Faust feel flowers Francesca Garsenda give glaciers Goethe Greek hand happy hast hath hear heart Heaven Helmer honor Jehosheba Jesus Joash king Krogstad Lady Froth Le Cid Lear leave Lesbia live look lord madam marriage Mary Mary Magdalene Mary Salome masque Mephisto Molière Nath nature nest never noble Nora Paolo pardon Paula Pierre Corneille Plato plays poet Portia pray public theaters Rautendelein Saladin scene Schiller Shakespeare Shylock sing Sir Lucius snow soul speak spirit stage stand sure sweet Tartuffe tell theaters thee thing thou thought Torvald tragedy tree Tyltyl wife woman word young Zounds
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Página 131 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 114 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say, They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, [To love my father all.] Lear.
Página 131 - It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much, To mitigate the justice of thy plea ; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
Página 132 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Página 114 - Lear. To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom, No less in space, validity and pleasure, Than that conferr'd on Goneril.
Página 101 - Rather had I a Jew be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty: For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession.
Página 124 - Sleep when he wakes ? and creep into the jaundice By being peevish ? I tell thee what, Antonio— I love thee, and it is my love that speaks— There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark'....
Página 107 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers: the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless di~ versity.
Página 71 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived? Now you shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we...
Página 158 - Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, It is but giving over of a game That must be lost.