Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page xv
... passion , taking this word in its widest signification , as including every mental condition , every tone from indifference or familiar mirth to the wildest rage and despair . He gives us the history of minds ; he lays open to us , in a ...
... passion , taking this word in its widest signification , as including every mental condition , every tone from indifference or familiar mirth to the wildest rage and despair . He gives us the history of minds ; he lays open to us , in a ...
Page xvi
... passions electrify the whole of the mental powers , and will , consequently , in highly favoured natures , express themselves in an ingenious and figurative manner . It has been often remarked , that indignation gives wit ; and , as ...
... passions electrify the whole of the mental powers , and will , consequently , in highly favoured natures , express themselves in an ingenious and figurative manner . It has been often remarked , that indignation gives wit ; and , as ...
Page xix
... passion . That is , he was to the poet what the painter of still life is to the painter of history . Common sense sym- pathises with the impressions of things on ordinary minds in ordinary circumstances : genius catches the glancing ...
... passion . That is , he was to the poet what the painter of still life is to the painter of history . Common sense sym- pathises with the impressions of things on ordinary minds in ordinary circumstances : genius catches the glancing ...
Page xx
... passion , or the infinite fluctuations of thought and accident . Hence he could judge neither of the heights nor depths of poetry . Nor is this all ; for being conscious of great powers in himself , and those powers of an adverse ...
... passion , or the infinite fluctuations of thought and accident . Hence he could judge neither of the heights nor depths of poetry . Nor is this all ; for being conscious of great powers in himself , and those powers of an adverse ...
Page xxi
... passion which these 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 ...
... passion which these 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 ...
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