Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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Page xiv
... passion is made subser- vient to it , till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and aversions . ' Of all poets , perhaps , he alone has portrayed the mental diseases - melancholy , delirium , lunacy — with such inexpressible , and ...
... passion is made subser- vient to it , till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and aversions . ' Of all poets , perhaps , he alone has portrayed the mental diseases - melancholy , delirium , lunacy — with such inexpressible , and ...
Page xix
... passion . It is the province of the didactic reasoner to take cognizance of those results of human nature which are constantly repeated and always the same , which follow one another in regular succession , which are acted upon by large ...
... passion . It is the province of the didactic reasoner to take cognizance of those results of human nature which are constantly repeated and always the same , which follow one another in regular succession , which are acted upon by large ...
Page xx
... passion which , seeking to exaggerate whatever excites the feelings of pleasure or power in the mind , and moulding ... passion which these objects inspire can go along with the imagination which seeks to express that passion and the ...
... passion which , seeking to exaggerate whatever excites the feelings of pleasure or power in the mind , and moulding ... passion which these objects inspire can go along with the imagination which seeks to express that passion and the ...
Page xxi
... passion : strip them of that connexion , and try them by ordinary conceptions and ordinary rules , and they are as grotesque and barbarous as you please . By thus lowering Shakspeare's genius to the standard of com- mon - place ...
... passion : strip them of that connexion , and try them by ordinary conceptions and ordinary rules , and they are as grotesque and barbarous as you please . By thus lowering Shakspeare's genius to the standard of com- mon - place ...
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... passion . They know their own minds exactly ; and only follow up a fa- vorite idea which they have sworn to with their tongues , and which is engraven on their hearts , into its untoward consequen- ces . They are the prettiest little ...
... passion . They know their own minds exactly ; and only follow up a fa- vorite idea which they have sworn to with their tongues , and which is engraven on their hearts , into its untoward consequen- ces . They are the prettiest little ...
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