Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1Baker and Scribner, 1848 - Dramatists, English |
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... pride under an affec- tation of duty , and pleading conscience in behalf of conceit , and seeking , or sneaking , for some sphere com- mensurate with his great gifts ; -but acting as if on purpose to exemplify , that " wisdom is ...
... pride under an affec- tation of duty , and pleading conscience in behalf of conceit , and seeking , or sneaking , for some sphere com- mensurate with his great gifts ; -but acting as if on purpose to exemplify , that " wisdom is ...
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... pride , choosing to be thought wicked rather than weak , has so often intrenched itself behind the examples of inferior genius , and tried to steal its reputation by aping its deformities , that even among the truly good , genius has ...
... pride , choosing to be thought wicked rather than weak , has so often intrenched itself behind the examples of inferior genius , and tried to steal its reputation by aping its deformities , that even among the truly good , genius has ...
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... pride , and vanity ; his willingness to make his characters every thing , himself nothing ; to keep behind his subject , instead of getting upon it . So that it seems doubtful whether this perfect self - aloofness from his rep ...
... pride , and vanity ; his willingness to make his characters every thing , himself nothing ; to keep behind his subject , instead of getting upon it . So that it seems doubtful whether this perfect self - aloofness from his rep ...
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... pride and spitefulness of temper , with mockery and scorn ; may , in fact , be made the vehicle of them ; humour , genuine humour , has no fellowship with either , cannot co - exist with them at all . The Dunciad , for example , and ...
... pride and spitefulness of temper , with mockery and scorn ; may , in fact , be made the vehicle of them ; humour , genuine humour , has no fellowship with either , cannot co - exist with them at all . The Dunciad , for example , and ...
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... pride that arrays itself against the really laughable , and spurns it , and spits at it , is truly as much more ignoble as it is less delightful than a cordial fel- lowship with it . I say the really laughable ; for to laugh at serious ...
... pride that arrays itself against the really laughable , and spurns it , and spits at it , is truly as much more ignoble as it is less delightful than a cordial fel- lowship with it . I say the really laughable ; for to laugh at serious ...
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Page 219 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 273 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues...
Page 304 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Page 219 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd ; Love's feeling is more soft and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled* snails...
Page 14 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 19 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 303 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 46 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 20 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 15 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.