Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page xiii
... object of the volume here offered to the public , is to illustrate these remarks in a more particular manner by a reference to each play . A gentleman of the name of Mason , the author of a Treatise on Ornamental Gardening ( not Mason ...
... object of the volume here offered to the public , is to illustrate these remarks in a more particular manner by a reference to each play . A gentleman of the name of Mason , the author of a Treatise on Ornamental Gardening ( not Mason ...
Page xvi
... object , to move in a sufficiently powerful manner when he wished to do so , has occasionally , by indulging in a freer play , purposely moderated the impressions when too painful , and immediately introduced a musical alleviation of ...
... object , to move in a sufficiently powerful manner when he wished to do so , has occasionally , by indulging in a freer play , purposely moderated the impressions when too painful , and immediately introduced a musical alleviation of ...
Page xix
... objects but " such as he could measure with a two - foot rule , or tell upon ten fingers " : he judged of human nature in the same way , by mood and figure : he saw only the definite , the positive , and the practical , the average ...
... objects but " such as he could measure with a two - foot rule , or tell upon ten fingers " : he judged of human nature in the same way , by mood and figure : he saw only the definite , the positive , and the practical , the average ...
Page xx
... objects according to the impulses of im- agination , produces a genius and a taste for poetry . According to Dr. Johnson , a mountain is sublime , or a rose is beautiful ; for that their name and definition imply . But he would no more ...
... objects according to the impulses of im- agination , produces a genius and a taste for poetry . According to Dr. Johnson , a mountain is sublime , or a rose is beautiful ; for that their name and definition imply . But he would no more ...
Page xxi
... objects inspire can go along with the imagination which seeks to express that passion and the uneasy sense of delight accompanying it by something still more beautiful , and no one can feel this pas- sionate love of nature without quick ...
... objects inspire can go along with the imagination which seeks to express that passion and the uneasy sense of delight accompanying it by something still more beautiful , and no one can feel this pas- sionate love of nature without quick ...
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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