10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHASTNESS»
Discover the use of
ghastness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ghastness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Works of Shakespeare: Henry V. Antony and Cleopatra. Othello
Do you perceive the ghastness of her eye ? — Nay, if you stare,9 we shall hear
more anon. — Behold her well ; I pray you, look upon her : Do you see,
gentlemen 1 nay, guiltiness will speak, Though tongues were out of use. Enter
Emilia. Emil.
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, 1881
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Standard English Poems, Spenser to Tennyson
... or mantle." The actual meaning is an alms- purse or bag. — 15. Holm= holly
tree. (See Faerie Queene, Bk. I. C I. 1. 81 and n.) 243.— 31. Ghastness = terror. "
Do you perceive tbe ghastness 662 THOMSON TO TENNYSON.
Do you perceive the ghastness of her eye ? — Nay, if you stare," we shall hear
more anon. — Behold her well ; I pray you, look upon her : Do you see,
gentlemen ? nay, guiltiness will speak, Though tongues were out of use. Enter
Emilia. Emil.
William Shakespeare, 1881
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The works of Shakespeare: the text carefully restored ...
Stay you, good gentlemen.8 — Look you pale, mistress 1 — Do you perceive the
ghastness of her eye ?-r- Nay, if you stare,8 we shall hear more anon. — Behold
her well ; I pray you, look upon her: Do you see, gentlemen ? nay, guiltiness will ...
William Shakespeare, 1871
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The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Miscellaneous pieces in ...
Oscarre the greate Dane gave best hee shulde bee forslagene, with the
commeynge sunne; no teares colde availe, the morne cladde yn roabes of
ghastness was come ; whan the Da- nique Kynge behested Oscarre, to araie hys
knyghes ...
Thomas Chatterton, Joseph Cottle, Robert Southey, 1803
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The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Poems attributed to Rowley
The gatherd storme is rype ; the bigge drops falle; The forswat meadowes smethe
, and drenche the raine ; The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall, And the full
flockes are drivynge ore the plaine ; Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott ...
Thomas Chatterton, Joseph Cottle, Robert Southey, 1803
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Othello: New Critical Essays
Do you perceive the ghastness of her eye? / Nay, an you store, we shall hear
more anon. / Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her. /Do you see, gentleman?
Nay, guiltiness /Will speak, though tongues were out of use (5.1.106—112, ...
The gatherd storme is rype ; the bigge drops falle ; The forswat meadowes
smethe, and drenche the raine; 30 The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall, And
the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine ; Dashde from the cloudes the waters
flott ...
Andrew Marvell, Bill Hutchings, 2002
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of ...
Do yc l perceive ihe ghastness of her eye 7— Nay, if you stare, we shall hear
more anon : Behold her well ; I pray you, look upon her ; Do you Me, gentlemen 7
nay, guiltiness will speak, Though tongues were out of use. Cos. Iago 7 O, lam ...
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, George Steevens, 1844
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
... as \Vroten bie the Gode Prieste Thomas Rowleie," containing the celebrated
picture of the storm : “ The gather'd storm is rype ; the bigge drops l'allc' The
forsniat meadows smethe and drenche the mine : The comyng ghastness do the
cattle ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, 1866
