This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...end of the play: This rough magic I here abjure.... I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. And, when, still later, he intimates that he will retire to Milan, where every third thought will be his grave, the reference to the poet's own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...end of the play: This rough magic I here abjure.... I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. And, when, still later, he intimates that he will retire to Milan, where every third thought will be his grave, the reference to the poet's own retiral can hardly be mistaken. The Tempest is like a great piece of music, capable of expressing many meanings; and there is one thought still, behind, which is the profoundest of all. If this island, in the atmosphere of which musical sounds floated and magical forces worked, represented the realm of poetry, and especially represented the stage--that is, the little world on the surface of which the poet's genius displayed the passions and the principles which govern the great world--then the dropping of the curtain and the vanishing of the scene might easily suggest the final catastrophe of the world itself. This thought is not foreign to Shakspeare's other writings, but it is expressed in The Tempest in lines as grand as any he ever penned, occurring at the close of a tableau of classical divinities, presented as a play within the play: These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped-towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant, faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. In this thought, that our so solid-seeming earth is only a transient phantasm, and that the hot and stormy ambitions of men are only the tossings of an uneasy dream, there is a solemnity alm...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
