Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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Page xii
... give " reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakspeare . " Certainly , no writer among ourselves has shown either the same enthusiastic admiration of his genius , or the same philosophical acuteness in pointing out his ...
... give " reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakspeare . " Certainly , no writer among ourselves has shown either the same enthusiastic admiration of his genius , or the same philosophical acuteness in pointing out his ...
Page xv
... gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may some- times also give vent to itself in antithetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have not been duly weighed . Shakspeare , who was ...
... gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may some- times also give vent to itself in antithetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have not been duly weighed . Shakspeare , who was ...
Page xx
... give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the descrip- tion of flowers in The Winter's Tale , than to describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages ...
... give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the descrip- tion of flowers in The Winter's Tale , than to describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages ...
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... give rise , without the assistance of any other motive , either of passion or self - interest . Iago in fact belongs ... gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions . Be it observed 36 OTHELLO .
... give rise , without the assistance of any other motive , either of passion or self - interest . Iago in fact belongs ... gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions . Be it observed 36 OTHELLO .
Page 48
... give the greatest possible effect to a favorite object . The un- derstanding is a dividing and measuring faculty : it judges of things , not according to their immediate impression on the mind , but according to their relations to one ...
... give the greatest possible effect to a favorite object . The un- derstanding is a dividing and measuring faculty : it judges of things , not according to their immediate impression on the mind , but according to their relations to one ...
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Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 104 - 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...
Page 84 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page xx - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 101 - Ah ! dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour ? For fear of that I...