 The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Page 461815Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 606 pages
...Shakspeare ? — A kindred mind ! * * * 'The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity,...lago — we think not so much of the crimes which tliey commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...the witty, accomplished Richard? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare arc so much th* Objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even /ago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity,...so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the amhition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap thosft Dioral... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather, than of interest or curiosity...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even logo, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the object* of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * ' * » " So to see Lear acted,— to see an old man tottering about the stage. with a walking-stick,... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while wo are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity...their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters— Macbeth, Richard, evea lago — we think not so much of the crimes... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." * * » * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,... | |
 | 1824 - 340 pages
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity...their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes... | |
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