Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volume 2

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H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1867
 

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Page 59 - die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that l yet have heard It seems to me most stränge that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end Will come, when it will come.
Page 59 - They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it onlie live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn
Page 170 - thrashes out the whole corn-crop he calls that the ending — and naturally so. Even Milton was up to this: „When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten days labourers could not end;" L'Allegro. This point is very justly
Page 183 - Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes: For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would on the rearward of reproaches Strike at thy life." This is the reading of the quarto, which has the spelling
Page 59 - come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all. Eben so nahe liegt die Stelle aus Julius Cäsar Akt II.
Page 154 - occasioned an emendation: Enter Martius Cursing. ' „All the contagion of the South light on you, You Shames of Rome: you Heard of Byles and Plagues Plaister you ore, that you may be abhorr'd Farther than seene, and one infect another Against the Winde a mile: you Soules of Geese, That
Page 156 - they escaped our gratitude! In 2 Henry IV. V. 4, help again occurs, and is again suspected and supplanted. Lord Say thus pleads his cause: ..Long sitting to determine poor men's causes Hath made me full of sickness and diseases. Cade. Ye shall hempen caudle then, and the
Page 170 - do you so ill translate yourself, Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace. Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, Your pens to lances; and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?
Page 266 - have heard and grieved, How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth, Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states, But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them Dieser Charakter eines grossen, um seine Vaterstadt mit Gut und Blut hochverdienten Patrioten wird erst hier dem
Page 176 - So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, As in this king." The reader who desires to see corroborative examples from the writers of the time, may consult Mr. Staunton's edition of Shakespeare, Vol. II. p.

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