Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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Page vii
... pictures . Art , however , was not his metier , though after his return from France he painted some portraits , one of which -the last he did - is at least familiar , that of Lamb as a Venetian Senator , now in the National Portrait ...
... pictures . Art , however , was not his metier , though after his return from France he painted some portraits , one of which -the last he did - is at least familiar , that of Lamb as a Venetian Senator , now in the National Portrait ...
Page xi
... Picture Galleries in England , " with a criticism on " Mariage à la Mode ” ( in part from London Magazine ) , 1824. " Characteristics , in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims , " 1823 , 1837. " The Spirit of the Age ; or , Contemporary ...
... Picture Galleries in England , " with a criticism on " Mariage à la Mode ” ( in part from London Magazine ) , 1824. " Characteristics , in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims , " 1823 , 1837. " The Spirit of the Age ; or , Contemporary ...
Page xiii
... picture , like a mock - rainbow , is but the reflection of a reflection . every single character in Shakespear is as much an indi- vidual as those in life itself ; it is as impossible to find any two alike ; and such , as from their ...
... picture , like a mock - rainbow , is but the reflection of a reflection . every single character in Shakespear is as much an indi- vidual as those in life itself ; it is as impossible to find any two alike ; and such , as from their ...
Page xv
... picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls ; of all the imper- ceptible advantages which it there gains ; of all the strata- gems by which every other passion is made subservient to it ...
... picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls ; of all the imper- ceptible advantages which it there gains ; of all the strata- gems by which every other passion is made subservient to it ...
Page xvii
... picture . We have lived to see tragedies of which the catastrophe consists in the swoon of an enamoured princess . If Shakespear falls occasionally into the opposite extreme , it is a noble error , originating in the fulness of a ...
... picture . We have lived to see tragedies of which the catastrophe consists in the swoon of an enamoured princess . If Shakespear falls occasionally into the opposite extreme , it is a noble error , originating in the fulness of a ...
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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