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Page xiii
... the sage and the idiot , speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations , and portray in the most accurate manner , with only a few apparent violations of costume , the spirit ...
... the sage and the idiot , speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations , and portray in the most accurate manner , with only a few apparent violations of costume , the spirit ...
Page xvi
Shakspeare's comic talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity . All that I before wished was , not to admit that the ...
Shakspeare's comic talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity . All that I before wished was , not to admit that the ...
Page xviii
Dr. Johnson's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits of his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology , and to weigh his excellences and defects in equal scales , stuffed ...
Dr. Johnson's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits of his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology , and to weigh his excellences and defects in equal scales , stuffed ...
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He at the same time preserves the utmost propriety of action and passion , and gives all their local accompaniments . If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in ...
He at the same time preserves the utmost propriety of action and passion , and gives all their local accompaniments . If he was equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in ...
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He is not equal to the struggle with fate and conscience . He now " bends up each corporal instrument to the terrible feat ; " at other times his heart misgives him , and he is cowed and abashed by his success .
He is not equal to the struggle with fate and conscience . He now " bends up each corporal instrument to the terrible feat ; " at other times his heart misgives him , and he is cowed and abashed by his success .
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| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Wiley & Putnam's library of choice reading |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Publisher | Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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