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Page viii
... the present was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on the Drama , which give
by far the best account of the plays of Shakspeare that has hitherto appeared .
The only 1 circumstances in which it was thought not impossible to viii PREFACE
.
... the present was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on the Drama , which give
by far the best account of the plays of Shakspeare that has hitherto appeared .
The only 1 circumstances in which it was thought not impossible to viii PREFACE
.
Page 86
... cries and to make them submit to the last indignities , from mere pride and self -
will , our admiration of his prowess is immediately converted into contempt for
their pusillanimity . The insolence of power is stronger than the plea of necessity .
... cries and to make them submit to the last indignities , from mere pride and self -
will , our admiration of his prowess is immediately converted into contempt for
their pusillanimity . The insolence of power is stronger than the plea of necessity .
Page 131
The one is that admirable one when the vision which he has conjured up
disappears , beginning “ ' The cloud - capp'd towers , the gorgeous palaces , ” & c
. which has been so often quoted , that every schoolboy knows it by heart ; the
other is ...
The one is that admirable one when the vision which he has conjured up
disappears , beginning “ ' The cloud - capp'd towers , the gorgeous palaces , ” & c
. which has been so often quoted , that every schoolboy knows it by heart ; the
other is ...
Page 158
His religious honesty in this respect is admirable . One speech of his is worth a
million . His father , Gloster , whom he has just deluded with a forged story of his
brother Edgar's designs against his life , accounts for his unnatural behaviour
and ...
His religious honesty in this respect is admirable . One speech of his is worth a
million . His father , Gloster , whom he has just deluded with a forged story of his
brother Edgar's designs against his life , accounts for his unnatural behaviour
and ...
Page 179
Of this state of accomplished barbarism the appeal of Bolingbroke and Mowbray
is an admirable specimen . Another of these “ keen encounters of their wits , ”
which serve to whet the talkers ' swords , is where Aumerle answers in the ...
Of this state of accomplished barbarism the appeal of Bolingbroke and Mowbray
is an admirable specimen . Another of these “ keen encounters of their wits , ”
which serve to whet the talkers ' swords , is where Aumerle answers in the ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, 1818 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 323 pages |
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