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Part II. The Indian Seasons.
I.
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“A great length of deadly days.” — Atalanta in Calydon .
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“For the rain it raineth every day.” — Twelfth Night .
III.
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“Ah! if to thee
It feels Elysian, how rich to me,
An exiled mortal, sounds its pleasant name!”
Endymion .
Part III. Unnatural History.
I.
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Monkeys and Metaphysics. — How they found Seeta. — Yet they are not Proud. — Their Sad-Facedness. — Decayed Divinities. — As Gods in Egypt. — From Grave to Gay. — What do the Apes think of us? — The Etiquette of Scratching. — “The New Boy” of the Monkey-House. — They take Notes of us. — Man-Ape Puzzles. — The Soko. — Missing Links.
II.
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Titus Andronicus .
“It is no gentle chase.” — Venus and Adonis .
“Whence and what art thou, execrable shape,
That darest, though grim and terrible, to advance
Thy miscreated front?” — Paradise Lost .
“You do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence.” — Hamlet .
“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.”
Portia .
“With a groan that had something terribly human in it, and yet was full of brutishness, the man-ape fell forward on his face.” — Du Chaillu .