Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... objection , thus keeping up a perpetual alterna- tion of perfections and absurdities . We do not otherwise know how to account for such assertions as the following : " In his tragic scenes , there is always something PREFACE . xxi.
... objection , thus keeping up a perpetual alterna- tion of perfections and absurdities . We do not otherwise know how to account for such assertions as the following : " In his tragic scenes , there is always something PREFACE . xxi.
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... scene as well as by the length of time it occupies . The read- ing of this play is like going a journey with some uncertain ob- ject at the end of it , and in which the suspense is kept up and heightened by the long intervals between ...
... scene as well as by the length of time it occupies . The read- ing of this play is like going a journey with some uncertain ob- ject at the end of it , and in which the suspense is kept up and heightened by the long intervals between ...
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... scene with Iachimo , as to her husband's infidelity , is much the same as Desdemona's backwardness to believe Othello's jealousy . Her answer to the most distressing part of the picture is only , " My lord , I fear , has forgot Britain ...
... scene with Iachimo , as to her husband's infidelity , is much the same as Desdemona's backwardness to believe Othello's jealousy . Her answer to the most distressing part of the picture is only , " My lord , I fear , has forgot Britain ...
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... scenes in which they appear , are a fine relief to the intrigues and artificial refinements of the court from which they are banished . Nothing can surpass the wildness and sim- plicity of the descriptions of the mountain - life they ...
... scenes in which they appear , are a fine relief to the intrigues and artificial refinements of the court from which they are banished . Nothing can surpass the wildness and sim- plicity of the descriptions of the mountain - life they ...
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... scenes in CYMBELINE : yet how different the contemplative quiet of the one from the enterprising boldness and precarious ... scene in which Bellarius instructs the young princes to pay their orisons to heaven : - " See boys ! this gate ...
... scenes in CYMBELINE : yet how different the contemplative quiet of the one from the enterprising boldness and precarious ... scene in which Bellarius instructs the young princes to pay their orisons to heaven : - " See boys ! this gate ...
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