The Law in ShakespeareThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999 - 303 páginas This work consists of definitions obtained from existing law dictionaries illustrated with annotations and, most important, by hundreds of quotations from Shakespeare's 37 plays, poems & sonnets. |
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... tion of Joseph's coat to Jacob , the noting the mole on Imogen's snow - pure breast , the smearing by Lady Macbeth of the grooms ' faces with blood , and the use of the handkerchief by Iago , are done with legal craft , and form ...
... tion of Joseph's coat to Jacob , the noting the mole on Imogen's snow - pure breast , the smearing by Lady Macbeth of the grooms ' faces with blood , and the use of the handkerchief by Iago , are done with legal craft , and form ...
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... tion that Shakespeare was an obscure and illit- erate man , and from Milton's commanding intel- lectual force and erudition , that the latter wrote the plays in that heyday of his youth when , ac- cording to his own statement , he ...
... tion that Shakespeare was an obscure and illit- erate man , and from Milton's commanding intel- lectual force and erudition , that the latter wrote the plays in that heyday of his youth when , ac- cording to his own statement , he ...
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... tion , there is no possibility of such perturbations . I regard Paley's Horae Paulinae as one of the most helpful books that a law student can read . It trains him for the most strenuous dialectics of his profession . Paley's thesis is ...
... tion , there is no possibility of such perturbations . I regard Paley's Horae Paulinae as one of the most helpful books that a law student can read . It trains him for the most strenuous dialectics of his profession . Paley's thesis is ...
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... tion , that they were each written by a different man . Some of the most interesting discoveries in astro- nomical science have been predicted by the applica- tion of the calculus of probabilities . For instance , Michell , in 1767 ...
... tion , that they were each written by a different man . Some of the most interesting discoveries in astro- nomical science have been predicted by the applica- tion of the calculus of probabilities . For instance , Michell , in 1767 ...
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... tion worse than that which the poet cursed . But the identity has heen the subject of so much asser- tion that it may be well to pause before the unreal mockery and exorcise a few of its fantastic shapes . It is not true that ...
... tion worse than that which the poet cursed . But the identity has heen the subject of so much asser- tion that it may be well to pause before the unreal mockery and exorcise a few of its fantastic shapes . It is not true that ...
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Página 76 - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made 4.
Página 100 - The slaves are ours : So do I answer you : The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it: If you deny me, fie upon your law ! There is no force in the decrees of Venice : I stand for judgment : answer ; shall I have it ? Duke.
Página 193 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the ' lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Página 107 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Página 230 - tis his will : Let but the Commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; VTea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 137 - But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 103 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; VOL. II. X And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Página 75 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 103 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this...
Página 77 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.