Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 275 pages |
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... piece of analytical criticism . Richardson's Essays include but a few of Shakespear's principal characters . The only work which seemed to supersede the necessity of an attempt like the present was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on ...
... piece of analytical criticism . Richardson's Essays include but a few of Shakespear's principal characters . The only work which seemed to supersede the necessity of an attempt like the present was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on ...
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... piece , but its greatest charm is the character of Imogen . Posthumus is only interesting from the interest she takes in him ; and she is only interesting herself from her tenderness and constancy to her husband . It is the peculiar ...
... piece , but its greatest charm is the character of Imogen . Posthumus is only interesting from the interest she takes in him ; and she is only interesting herself from her tenderness and constancy to her husband . It is the peculiar ...
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... pieces with me . Oh , Men's vows are women's traitors . All good seeming By thy revolt , oh husband , shall be thought Put on for villainy : not born where ' t grows , But worn a bait for ladies . Pisanio . Good Madam , hear me- Imogen ...
... pieces with me . Oh , Men's vows are women's traitors . All good seeming By thy revolt , oh husband , shall be thought Put on for villainy : not born where ' t grows , But worn a bait for ladies . Pisanio . Good Madam , hear me- Imogen ...
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... piece himself . We do not much admire the representation here given of Julius Cæsar , nor do we think it answers to the portrait given of him in his Commentaries . He makes several vapouring and rather pedantic speeches , and does ...
... piece himself . We do not much admire the representation here given of Julius Cæsar , nor do we think it answers to the portrait given of him in his Commentaries . He makes several vapouring and rather pedantic speeches , and does ...
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... piece of high - minded decla- mation . Cassius's insisting on the pretended effe- minacy of Cæsar's character , and his description of their swimming across the Tiber together , " once upon a raw and gusty day , " are among the finest ...
... piece of high - minded decla- mation . Cassius's insisting on the pretended effe- minacy of Cæsar's character , and his description of their swimming across the Tiber together , " once upon a raw and gusty day , " are among the finest ...
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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