New Exegesis of Shakespeare: Interpretation of His Principal Characters and Plays on the Principle of Races |
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... hand , the latency , if shrunk to personal peculiarities , would become equally uninteresting , for the same reason of insignificance . This is the Charybdis and Scylla of the critics . It is that which has been stated with his curious ...
... hand , the latency , if shrunk to personal peculiarities , would become equally uninteresting , for the same reason of insignificance . This is the Charybdis and Scylla of the critics . It is that which has been stated with his curious ...
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... hand , as the three unities themselves in relative complexity . The series of this quality is from the person to the place and time , as it , indeed , is stated usually , and may be rendered plain to sense . In fact , the unity has in ...
... hand , as the three unities themselves in relative complexity . The series of this quality is from the person to the place and time , as it , indeed , is stated usually , and may be rendered plain to sense . In fact , the unity has in ...
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... with that drama , as aped to pedantry by the least bad of his contempora- ries , Jonson . And , on the other hand , since the alternative of The the interior was flat monotony , it was not 16 NEW EXEGESIS OF SHAKESPEARE .
... with that drama , as aped to pedantry by the least bad of his contempora- ries , Jonson . And , on the other hand , since the alternative of The the interior was flat monotony , it was not 16 NEW EXEGESIS OF SHAKESPEARE .
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... hand , the same people have from masters become servants , the mask of poetry slips off , and leaves the personage to nature . For with mankind , in case of nations as well as individuals , not merely is it true , that " A saint in ...
... hand , the same people have from masters become servants , the mask of poetry slips off , and leaves the personage to nature . For with mankind , in case of nations as well as individuals , not merely is it true , that " A saint in ...
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... hand , this character itself is misconceived , but in the opposite direction from the Roman and Italian . Iago is supposed to be a villain of the vulgar stamp ; one who tramples upon conscience , upon honesty and humanity , with ...
... hand , this character itself is misconceived , but in the opposite direction from the Roman and Italian . Iago is supposed to be a villain of the vulgar stamp ; one who tramples upon conscience , upon honesty and humanity , with ...
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Page 239 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 77 - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!
Page 125 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 212 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 269 - 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 69 - Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 163 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, "Thus thou must do, if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should...
Page 219 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 130 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 257 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.