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"they go on such strange geometrical hinges * Yoivnlay open them both ways : any way , ( for heav ' n sake ) So I were out of your whispering : tell my brothers , 'That I perceive , death ( now I ' m well awake ) Best # ift is ^ they can give or I can take / I vroultl fain put off my lost woman ' s fault : Fd not be tedious to you .
Pott , and pull strongly , for your able strength JSTwst pull down heaven upon me . Yet stay , heaven ' s gates are not so highly arch'd - As princes' palaces ; they that enter there Must go upon their knees . Come , violent death . Serve for mandragora to make me sleep ! Go tell my brothers ; when 1 am laid out , They then may feed in quiet . \ JThey strangle her , kneeling !!
Ferdinand enters . Ferdinand—Is she dead ? Bosola—She is what you would have her . Fix your eye here . Ferdinand—Constantly . Bosola—Do you not weep ? Other sins only speak ; murder shrieks out . The element of water moistens the earth
. But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens ! Ferdinand—Cover her face : mine eyes dazzle : she died young . Bosola—I think not so : her infelicity Seem'd to have years too many . Ferdinand—She and I were twins : — - And should I die this instant , I had lived Her time to a minute . "
"This /* says Ilazlittin his work on the old English dramatists , "is not the bandying of idle words and rhetorical commonplaces" ( of style and diction ;) " but the writhing and conflict , and the sublime colloquy of man ' s nature with itself . " He also quotes , in another work , the concluding words of Fernando , as
an instance of the intensity which characterises the finest passages of these great dramatists , remarking to the effect , that Fernando ' s solemn brooding over the two points of time , birth and death , was as though the vast interval "between was nothing in the comparison , being all Absorbed by the passion of the scene . There is likewise an imaginary association of
himself with his sister in the grave , even as they had been associated in birth , striving thus to forget that it had been his own remorseless purpose which had occasioned her to 4 young / We now coaare to the ethical question , and our -previous charge of false and mischievouB views with reference to morals and social conditet , will be nwtde g-ood without the need of any arguments , merely by srtflferrng t 4 re reviewer to strut over the course in person . The pragmatical tmcoTTseiotistiess with
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/54/
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