The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Dramatists, English |
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... to engraft on his play the principal agents of the story . The dramatic importance of the queen is so small , that but for a curious question that has been raised relative 66 to the extent of her criminality , she would HAMLET . 13.
... to engraft on his play the principal agents of the story . The dramatic importance of the queen is so small , that but for a curious question that has been raised relative 66 to the extent of her criminality , she would HAMLET . 13.
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... story . In his desire of bringing the tragedy to a conclusion , Shakspeare appears to have lost sight of the idea he originally * Act V. sc . 1 . + " Horatio , thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation cop'd withal . Since my ...
... story . In his desire of bringing the tragedy to a conclusion , Shakspeare appears to have lost sight of the idea he originally * Act V. sc . 1 . + " Horatio , thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation cop'd withal . Since my ...
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... story in the pre- sence of the officers and Horatio , and yet have rendered itself as inaudible to them as after- terwards to the queen . But suspense was our VOL . II . Ꭰ poet's object ; and never was it more effectually created ...
... story in the pre- sence of the officers and Horatio , and yet have rendered itself as inaudible to them as after- terwards to the queen . But suspense was our VOL . II . Ꭰ poet's object ; and never was it more effectually created ...
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... story in Il Pecorone di Ser Giovanni , Fiorentino , which doubtless reached Shakspeare through the medium of an old translation ; the same , in all probability , that was afterwards printed in a collection of novels bearing the ...
... story in Il Pecorone di Ser Giovanni , Fiorentino , which doubtless reached Shakspeare through the medium of an old translation ; the same , in all probability , that was afterwards printed in a collection of novels bearing the ...
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... story is a real , the play a mock , affair of gallantry : an injured husband is the butt of the former , and applause is solicited for the ingenuity of his deceivers . The play ridicules the folly of unreasonable suspicion ; and justly ...
... story is a real , the play a mock , affair of gallantry : an injured husband is the butt of the former , and applause is solicited for the ingenuity of his deceivers . The play ridicules the folly of unreasonable suspicion ; and justly ...
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Page 191 - Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 81 - I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown.
Page 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 191 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 91 - Even to the very quality of my lord : I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; And to his honours, and his valiant parts, Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
Page 83 - Ay, there's the point : as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Page 113 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Page 23 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 110 - Kent. Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th
Page 47 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.