(Encyclopedia) Combe, WilliamCombe, Williamk&oobreve;m, kōm [key], 1741–1823, English satirist and miscellaneous writer, b. Bristol. His writing was mainly hack work, issued anonymously to avoid…
Scene IIA court of JusticeEnter Leontes, Lords, and OfficersLeontesThis sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried
The daughter of a king, our…
(Encyclopedia) Frederick William IV, 1795–1861, king of Prussia (1840–61), son and successor of Frederick William III. A romanticist and a mystic, he conceived vague schemes of reform based on a…
Scene IEnter Pericles, on shipboardPericlesThou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast
Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,…
Act IScene ITroy. Before Priam's palaceEnter Troilus armed, and PandarusTroilusCall here my varlet; I'll unarm again:
Why should I war without the walls of Troy,
That find such cruel battle…
Act IIScene IA room in Leontes' palaceEnter Hermione, Mamillius, and LadiesHermioneTake the boy to you: he so troubles me,
'Tis past enduring.First LadyCome, my gracious lord,
Shall I be your…
Scene IIIThe same. Before the gatesThe Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter King Henry and his trainKing Henry VHow yet resolves the governor of the town?…
Act IScene IKing Lear's palaceEnter Kent, Gloucester, and EdmundKentI thought the king had more affected the Duke of
Albany than Cornwall.GloucesterIt did always seem so to us: but now, in…
(Encyclopedia) Maginn, WilliamMaginn, Williamməgĭnˈ [key], 1793–1842, Irish writer. Some of his best stories and essays appeared in Blackwood's Magazine. His short story “Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign…
