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... national understanding was not without its share in producing the following undertaking , for " we were piqued " that it should be reserved for a foreign critic to give “ reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakspeare .
... national understanding was not without its share in producing the following undertaking , for " we were piqued " that it should be reserved for a foreign critic to give “ reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakspeare .
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It has been often remarked , that indignation gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may sometimes also give vent to itself in antithetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have ...
It has been often remarked , that indignation gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may sometimes also give vent to itself in antithetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have ...
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But he would no more be able to give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the description 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 ...
But he would no more be able to give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the description 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 ...
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Good bo Méto really This part of his character is admirably set off by being brought in connection with that of Lady Macbeth , whose obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness give her the ascendency over her husband's faltering ...
Good bo Méto really This part of his character is admirably set off by being brought in connection with that of Lady Macbeth , whose obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness give her the ascendency over her husband's faltering ...
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Another passage to show that Shakspeare lost sight of nothing that could in any way give relief or heightening to his subject , is the conversation which takes place between Banquo and Fleance immediately before the murder of Duncan .
Another passage to show that Shakspeare lost sight of nothing that could in any way give relief or heightening to his subject , is the conversation which takes place between Banquo and Fleance immediately before the murder of Duncan .
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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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