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Page 104
He arrived at truth through a certain process ; Shakspeare saw every thing by
intuition . Chaucer had great variety of power , but he could do only one thing at
once . He set himself to work on a particular subject . His ideas were kept
separate ...
He arrived at truth through a certain process ; Shakspeare saw every thing by
intuition . Chaucer had great variety of power , but he could do only one thing at
once . He set himself to work on a particular subject . His ideas were kept
separate ...
Page 175
thing but corporal infirmities and weakness , the impotence of rage ; while we
read it , we see not Lear , but we are Lear ; -we are in his mind , we are sustained
by a grandeur , which baffles the malice of daughters and storms ; in the ...
thing but corporal infirmities and weakness , the impotence of rage ; while we
read it , we see not Lear , but we are Lear ; -we are in his mind , we are sustained
by a grandeur , which baffles the malice of daughters and storms ; in the ...
Page 264
William Hazlitt. Mine own , nor any thing to any , if I be not thine . To this I am inost
constant , Tho ' destiny say , No. Ee merry , gentle ; Strapgle such thoughts as
these , with any thing That you behold the while . Your guests are coming : Lift up
...
William Hazlitt. Mine own , nor any thing to any , if I be not thine . To this I am inost
constant , Tho ' destiny say , No. Ee merry , gentle ; Strapgle such thoughts as
these , with any thing That you behold the while . Your guests are coming : Lift up
...
Page 290
Every thing flies before his will , like a conjuror's wand , and he only
metamorphoses his wife's temper by metamorphosing her senses and all the
objects she sees , at a word's speaking . Such are his insisting that it is the moon
and not the sun ...
Every thing flies before his will , like a conjuror's wand , and he only
metamorphoses his wife's temper by metamorphosing her senses and all the
objects she sees , at a word's speaking . Such are his insisting that it is the moon
and not the sun ...
Page 316
The character of Aaron the Moor , is the only thing which shews any originality of
conception ; and the scene in which he expresses his joy “ at the blackness and
ugliness of his child begot in adultery , " the only one worthy of Shakspeare .
The character of Aaron the Moor , is the only thing which shews any originality of
conception ; and the scene in which he expresses his joy “ at the blackness and
ugliness of his child begot in adultery , " the only one worthy of Shakspeare .
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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...
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| 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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