Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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Page xviii
... beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy ...
... beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy ...
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... beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Con- greve's description of a ruin in The Mourning Bride , would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well , or better than the first ; and an ...
... beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Con- greve's description of a ruin in The Mourning Bride , would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well , or better than the first ; and an ...
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... beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an image like " the sleepy eye of love , " the allusion to " the lids of Juno's eyes " must appear extravagant and unmeaning . Shak- speare's fancy ...
... beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an image like " the sleepy eye of love , " the allusion to " the lids of Juno's eyes " must appear extravagant and unmeaning . Shak- speare's fancy ...
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... beauty is excited with as little conscious- ness as possible on her part . There are two delicious descrip- tions given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest ...
... beauty is excited with as little conscious- ness as possible on her part . There are two delicious descrip- tions given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest ...
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William Hazlitt. There is a moral sense in the proud beauty of this last image , a rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well - known passage begin . ning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained , and prayed me oft forbearance ...
William Hazlitt. There is a moral sense in the proud beauty of this last image , a rich surfeit of the fancy , -as that well - known passage begin . ning , " Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained , and prayed me oft forbearance ...
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