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He was a man of strong common sense and practical wisdom , rather than of
genius and feeling . He retained the regular , habitual impressions of actual
objects , but he could not follow the rapid flights of fancy , or the strong
movements of ...
He was a man of strong common sense and practical wisdom , rather than of
genius and feeling . He retained the regular , habitual impressions of actual
objects , but he could not follow the rapid flights of fancy , or the strong
movements of ...
Page 49
We can conceive a common actor to play Richard tolerably well ; we can
conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had
encountered the Weïrd Sisters . All the actors that we have ever seen , appear as
if they had ...
We can conceive a common actor to play Richard tolerably well ; we can
conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had
encountered the Weïrd Sisters . All the actors that we have ever seen , appear as
if they had ...
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The making one black and the other white , the one unprincipled , the other
unfortunate in the extreme , would have answered the common purposes of effect
, and satisfied tbe ambition of an ordinary painter of character . Shakspeare has ...
The making one black and the other white , the one unprincipled , the other
unfortunate in the extreme , would have answered the common purposes of effect
, and satisfied tbe ambition of an ordinary painter of character . Shakspeare has ...
Page 96
Troilus himself is no character : he is merely a common lover : but Cressida and
her uncle Pandarus are hit off with proverbial truth . By the speeches given to the
leaders of the Grecian host , Nestor , Ulysses , Agamemnon , Achilles ...
Troilus himself is no character : he is merely a common lover : but Cressida and
her uncle Pandarus are hit off with proverbial truth . By the speeches given to the
leaders of the Grecian host , Nestor , Ulysses , Agamemnon , Achilles ...
Page 198
He scarcely deserves this honour . He was fond of war and low company : -- We
know little else of him . He was careless , dissolute , and ambitious ; -idle , or
doing mischief . In private , he seemed to have no idea of the common decencies
of ...
He scarcely deserves this honour . He was fond of war and low company : -- We
know little else of him . He was careless , dissolute , and ambitious ; -idle , or
doing mischief . In private , he seemed to have no idea of the common decencies
of ...
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Page 179 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 129 - And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites...
Page 54 - That Tiber trembled underneath her banks To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores ? And do you now put on your best attire, And do you now cull out a holiday, And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Begone ! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Page 253 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 256 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 297 - Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more, Thou art not thyself...
Page 320 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 171 - 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 172 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, 1818 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 323 pages |
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