Lowell Shakespeare Memorial Exercises on the Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of William Shakespeare, Apr. 23, 1864Courier Office, 1864 - 51 страница |
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... reasons why the States of Massachusetts and Maine should not suffer the event we commemorate to pass unnoticed . Among the earliest productions of Shakspeare's Muse were the Poems , entitled " Venus and Adonis " and " Lucrece . " Both ...
... reasons why the States of Massachusetts and Maine should not suffer the event we commemorate to pass unnoticed . Among the earliest productions of Shakspeare's Muse were the Poems , entitled " Venus and Adonis " and " Lucrece . " Both ...
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... reason why his works should not be read . We admit the charge in the sense of indecency of expression , but deny that there is any studied indecency in the thoughts . But there are some circum- stances which will go far to weaken the ...
... reason why his works should not be read . We admit the charge in the sense of indecency of expression , but deny that there is any studied indecency in the thoughts . But there are some circum- stances which will go far to weaken the ...
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... reason for thank- fulness . But it must be confessed , there are times when grave doubts as to this improvement arise . Improper thoughts are not promoted so much by indecent language as they are by insinuations , which inflame the ...
... reason for thank- fulness . But it must be confessed , there are times when grave doubts as to this improvement arise . Improper thoughts are not promoted so much by indecent language as they are by insinuations , which inflame the ...
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... reason we " discover a mighty , irregular power of reasoning , immethodical from the " ordinary purpose of life , but executing its powers , as the wind " bloweth where it listeth ' at will upon the corruption and abuses of " mankind ...
... reason we " discover a mighty , irregular power of reasoning , immethodical from the " ordinary purpose of life , but executing its powers , as the wind " bloweth where it listeth ' at will upon the corruption and abuses of " mankind ...
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... reason to believe that this class , who have such a disinter- ested love of the public welfare , had the same characteristics three cen- turies ago , that they now possess , and that though Lear was crazed by his daughter's ingratitude ...
... reason to believe that this class , who have such a disinter- ested love of the public welfare , had the same characteristics three cen- turies ago , that they now possess , and that though Lear was crazed by his daughter's ingratitude ...
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Alderman appreciated BARTLET beautiful Ben Jonson Birth of Shakspeare called celebration character CITIZENS OF LOWELL classical Cleopatra clowns Committee common delight drama earthly England English entertainment ex-Mayor ex-State Senator exercises fame father favorable feel genius gentlemen H. G. F. CORLISS Hamlet honor Huntington immortal bard indecency J. F. McEvoy James JAMES DEAN JOHN justice King Lear labor ladies language literary Macbeth Massachusetts Measure for Measure memory Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream mind monuments nature Night's Dream noble occasion Oration ORIGINAL ODE Othello Otto Club perhaps person plays poem Poet present President productions Queen Elizabeth reader ROBERT PRINCE Romeo and Juliet Scene SENTIMENT Shaks Shakspeare wrote Shakspeare's words suit Singing spoken sublime suit every station taste Theatre thought Three Hundredth Anniversary Timon of Athens tion true valley Venus and Adonis virtue WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE wondrous writer
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Страница 20 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-color'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Страница 15 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Страница 19 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Страница 26 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Страница 46 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Страница 44 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Страница 16 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual; the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.
Страница 42 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Страница 20 - The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Страница 27 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will — Hor.: That is most certain.