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It not only grasps the diversities of rank , sex and age , down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar , the hero and the pickpocket , the sage and the idiot , speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he ...
It not only grasps the diversities of rank , sex and age , down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar , the hero and the pickpocket , the sage and the idiot , speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he ...
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A passing reflection of this kind , on the resemblance of the sleeping king to her father , alone prevents her from slaying Duncan with her own hand . In speaking of the character of Lady Macbeth , we ought not to pass over Mrs.
A passing reflection of this kind , on the resemblance of the sleeping king to her father , alone prevents her from slaying Duncan with her own hand . In speaking of the character of Lady Macbeth , we ought not to pass over Mrs.
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The description of the Witches is full of the same contradictory principle ; they " rejoice when good kings bleed , " " they are neither of the earth nor the air , but both ; they should be women , but their beards forbid it ; " they ...
The description of the Witches is full of the same contradictory principle ; they " rejoice when good kings bleed , " " they are neither of the earth nor the air , but both ; they should be women , but their beards forbid it ; " they ...
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In the French dra - j matists only the class is represented , never the individual : their kings , their heroes , and their lovers are all the same , and they are all French , that is , they are nothing but the mouth - pieces of certain ...
In the French dra - j matists only the class is represented , never the individual : their kings , their heroes , and their lovers are all the same , and they are all French , that is , they are nothing but the mouth - pieces of certain ...
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Thus MACBETH and Richard III . , King Henry VI . and Richard II . — characters that , in their general description , and in common hands , and indeed in the hands of any other poet , would be merely repetitions of the same general idea ...
Thus MACBETH and Richard III . , King Henry VI . and Richard II . — characters that , in their general description , and in common hands , and indeed in the hands of any other poet , would be merely repetitions of the same general idea ...
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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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