Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... play . A gentleman of the name of Mason , the author of a Treatise on Ornamental Gardening ( not Mason the poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of ...
... play . A gentleman of the name of Mason , the author of a Treatise on Ornamental Gardening ( not Mason the poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of ...
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... play , pur- posely moderated the impressions when too painful , and immediately introduced a musical alleviation of our sym- pathy . He has not those rude ideas of his art which many moderns seem to have , as if the poet , like the ...
... play , pur- posely moderated the impressions when too painful , and immediately introduced a musical alleviation of our sym- pathy . He has not those rude ideas of his art which many moderns seem to have , as if the poet , like the ...
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... plays . It may be considered as a dramatic romance , in which the most striking parts of the story are thrown into the ... play is like going a journey with some uncertain ob- ject at the end of it , and in which the suspense is kept up ...
... plays . It may be considered as a dramatic romance , in which the most striking parts of the story are thrown into the ... play is like going a journey with some uncertain ob- ject at the end of it , and in which the suspense is kept up ...
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... play , but the conclusion of Lear , of Romeo and Juliet , of Macbeth , of Othello , even of Hamlet , and of other plays of less moment , in which the last act is crowded with decisive events 7 brought about by natural and striking means ...
... play , but the conclusion of Lear , of Romeo and Juliet , of Macbeth , of Othello , even of Hamlet , and of other plays of less moment , in which the last act is crowded with decisive events 7 brought about by natural and striking means ...
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... play is an unruly chaos of strange and forbidden things , where the ground rocks under our feet . Shakspeare's genius here took its full swing , and trod upon the farthest bounds of nature and passion . This circumstance will account ...
... play is an unruly chaos of strange and forbidden things , where the ground rocks under our feet . Shakspeare's genius here took its full swing , and trod upon the farthest bounds of nature and passion . This circumstance will account ...
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