Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page vii
... given up all ideas of the pulpit . His father was still living at Wem , and there it was that in 1798 Hazlitt first saw Coleridge , and heard his last sermon in the Unitarian chapel of which his father had the charge . Coleridge took a ...
... given up all ideas of the pulpit . His father was still living at Wem , and there it was that in 1798 Hazlitt first saw Coleridge , and heard his last sermon in the Unitarian chapel of which his father had the charge . Coleridge took a ...
Page ix
... given the measure of his best quality . Then , in 1817 , he published his ' Characters of Shakespeare , ' which he dedicated to Charles Lamb ; in 1818 he reprinted a series of lectures ( at the Surrey Insti- tute ) on the English poets ...
... given the measure of his best quality . Then , in 1817 , he published his ' Characters of Shakespeare , ' which he dedicated to Charles Lamb ; in 1818 he reprinted a series of lectures ( at the Surrey Insti- tute ) on the English poets ...
Page xviii
... given mould , in a set form : they were made out by rule and system , by climax , inference , and antithesis : -Shakespear's were the reverse . Johnson's understanding dealt only in round numbers : the fractions were lost upon him . He ...
... given mould , in a set form : they were made out by rule and system , by climax , inference , and antithesis : -Shakespear's were the reverse . Johnson's understanding dealt only in round numbers : the fractions were lost upon him . He ...
Page 6
... given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest flowers , While summer lasts , and I live here , Fidele , I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack The flow ...
... given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest flowers , While summer lasts , and I live here , Fidele , I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack The flow ...
Page 18
... given of the gloomy coming on of evening , just as Banquo is going to be assassinated . " Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood . " · · • " Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn . " MACBETH ...
... given of the gloomy coming on of evening , just as Banquo is going to be assassinated . " Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood . " · · • " Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn . " MACBETH ...
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acter admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus appear banished Banquo beauty blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius char character circumstances Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona doth dramatic eyes Falstaff father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago imagination Juliet JULIUS CÆSAR king lady Lear live look lord lover Macbeth Malvolio manner Mark Antony MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity pleasure poet poetry Prince refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shakespear shew Sir Toby sleep soul speak speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee things thou art thought Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto W. E. Henley wife words youth