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The objection , that Shakspeare wounds our feelings by the open display of the most disgusting moral odiousness , harrows up the mind unmercifully , and tortures even our senses by the exhibition of the most insupportable and hateful ...
The objection , that Shakspeare wounds our feelings by the open display of the most disgusting moral odiousness , harrows up the mind unmercifully , and tortures even our senses by the exhibition of the most insupportable and hateful ...
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... seeking to exaggerate whatever excites the feelings of pleasure or power in the mind , and moulding the impressions of natural objects according to the impulses of imagination , produces a genius and a taste for poetry .
... seeking to exaggerate whatever excites the feelings of pleasure or power in the mind , and moulding the impressions of natural objects according to the impulses of imagination , produces a genius and a taste for poetry .
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The effect of this coincidence is rather felt than observed ; and as the impression exists unconsciously in the mind of the reader , so it probably arose in the same manner in the mind of the author , not from design , but from the ...
The effect of this coincidence is rather felt than observed ; and as the impression exists unconsciously in the mind of the reader , so it probably arose in the same manner in the mind of the author , not from design , but from the ...
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The answer of Bellarius to this expostulation is hardly satisfactory ; for nothing can be an answer to hope , or the passion of the mind for unknown good , but experience . - The forest of Arden , in As you like it , can alone compare ...
The answer of Bellarius to this expostulation is hardly satisfactory ; for nothing can be an answer to hope , or the passion of the mind for unknown good , but experience . - The forest of Arden , in As you like it , can alone compare ...
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They are like different creations of the same mind , not one of which has the slightest reference to the rest . This distinctness and originality is indeed the necessary consequence of truth and nature .
They are like different creations of the same mind , not one of which has the slightest reference to the rest . This distinctness and originality is indeed the necessary consequence of truth and nature .
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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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