Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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Page xviii
... looks like a labo- rious 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 full of " swelling figures and sonorous epithets ...
... looks like a labo- rious 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 full of " swelling figures and sonorous epithets ...
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... look at their faces , except by stealth and at intervals . No one ever hit the true perfection of the female character , the sense of weakness leaning on the strength of its affections for support , so well as Shakspeare -no one ever so ...
... look at their faces , except by stealth and at intervals . No one ever hit the true perfection of the female character , the sense of weakness leaning on the strength of its affections for support , so well as Shakspeare -no one ever so ...
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... look'dst like a villain : now methinks , Thy favor's good enough . Some jay of Italy , Whose mother was her painting , hath betrayed him : Poor I am stale , a garment out of fashion , And for I am richer than to hang by th ' walls , I ...
... look'dst like a villain : now methinks , Thy favor's good enough . Some jay of Italy , Whose mother was her painting , hath betrayed him : Poor I am stale , a garment out of fashion , And for I am richer than to hang by th ' walls , I ...
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... look not like the inhabitants of th ' earth And yet are on't ? " the mind is prepared for all that follows . This tragedy is alike distinguished for the lofty imagination it displays , and for the tumultuous vehemence of the action ...
... look not like the inhabitants of th ' earth And yet are on't ? " the mind is prepared for all that follows . This tragedy is alike distinguished for the lofty imagination it displays , and for the tumultuous vehemence of the action ...
Page 15
... " So fair and foul a day I have not seen , " & c . " Such welcome and unwelcome news together . " " Men's lives are like the flowers in their caps , dying or ere they sicken . " " Look like the innocent flower MACBETH . 15.
... " So fair and foul a day I have not seen , " & c . " Such welcome and unwelcome news together . " " Men's lives are like the flowers in their caps , dying or ere they sicken . " " Look like the innocent flower MACBETH . 15.
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