Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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Page ix
... poets , the dramatists of Elizabeth's time , the comic writers , the actors of his own day , and the painters of every age - will gladly hail the appearance of the present volume , as a sign and promise of others yet to come ; as come ...
... poets , the dramatists of Elizabeth's time , the comic writers , the actors of his own day , and the painters of every age - will gladly hail the appearance of the present volume , as a sign and promise of others yet to come ; as come ...
Page xi
... poets have a constant resemblance , which shows that they have received them from one another , and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture , like a mock rainbow , is but the reflection of a reflection . But every single ...
... poets have a constant resemblance , which shows that they have received them from one another , and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture , like a mock rainbow , is but the reflection of a reflection . But every single ...
Page xii
... poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of Macbeth and Richard III . , which is an exceedingly ingenious piece of analytical criti- cism ...
... poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of Macbeth and Richard III . , which is an exceedingly ingenious piece of analytical criti- cism ...
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... poets , who , in the lan- guage of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints in a most inimitable manner , the gradual progress from the first origin . He gives , ' as Lessing says , ' a living picture of all ...
... poets , who , in the lan- guage of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints in a most inimitable manner , the gradual progress from the first origin . He gives , ' as Lessing says , ' a living picture of all ...
Page xv
... poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and ...
... poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and ...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: & Lectures on the English Poets William Hazlitt No preview available - 2015 |
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