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Page 350 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
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Page 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
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| Title | A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, Alexander James William Morrison Bohn's standard library |
| Author | August Wilhelm von Schlegel |
| Editor | Alexander James William Morrison |
| Translated by | John Black |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Bell & Daldy, 1871 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 535 pages |
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