The Fine Art of Reading: And Other Literary StudiesReflections on literature from Shakespeare to Conrad. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 33
Page 112
... death . In some strange mystical sense love implies death . The sinful , lawless lover , like Giovanni , accepts death as the inevitable result of his passion even though he may not repent of it . The virtuous lover , like Calantha ...
... death . In some strange mystical sense love implies death . The sinful , lawless lover , like Giovanni , accepts death as the inevitable result of his passion even though he may not repent of it . The virtuous lover , like Calantha ...
Page 119
... death ; though art Can find no comfort for a broken heart . These lines seem to contain the moral of the play ; they are the essence of Ford's profoundly pessimistic philos- ophy . " Love only reigns in death . . . . " It is odd that ...
... death ; though art Can find no comfort for a broken heart . These lines seem to contain the moral of the play ; they are the essence of Ford's profoundly pessimistic philos- ophy . " Love only reigns in death . . . . " It is odd that ...
Page 121
... death scenes of Orgilus and Ithocles are cere- monious . The victim sits or stands dignified and impassive to receive the deliberate death blow of his executioner . Ford's use of song , too , intensifies the formal operatic atmosphere ...
... death scenes of Orgilus and Ithocles are cere- monious . The victim sits or stands dignified and impassive to receive the deliberate death blow of his executioner . Ford's use of song , too , intensifies the formal operatic atmosphere ...
Contents
Shakespearean Comedy | 37 |
The Tragedies of John Ford | 109 |
The Forms of English Fiction | 127 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman achieve action admire aesthetic artist Beatrice beauty Brontë Calantha characteristic characters Charlotte Brontë charm colour comic Conrad convention critics death delightful Dorothy Osborne drama elements Elizabethan Emily Brontë English essay experience expression exquisite eyes fact feel figures Ford Ford's Gentlemen of Verona harmony Hazlitt heart honour human humour ideal imagination individual intellectual Ithocles Jane Austen Jaques Lady light living Lord Jim Love's Labour's Lost lovers lyrical comedy Malvolio Mare Mare's Marianne Merchant of Venice Midsummer-Night's Dream mind mood moral nature never Nostromo novel novelists Orgilus passion Pater pattern picture play pleasure plot poetic poetry prose reader reality realize romantic Rosalind says scene Sense and Sensibility sentiment Shakespeare Shakespeare's comedies shows Shylock soul spirit story strains style taste theme things thought tion tone tragedy tragic true Twelfth Night Viola vision vivid whole words writer