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Page xiv
His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height , as is the case with so many tragic poets , who , in the language of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints in a most inimitable ...
His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height , as is the case with so many tragic poets , who , in the language of Lessing , are thorough masters of the legal style of love . He paints in a most inimitable ...
Page xvi
... our hair stand on end , and congeals , our blood with horror , possessed , at the same time , the insinuating loveliness of the sweetest poetry . He plays with love like a child ; and his songs are breathed out like melting sighs .
... our hair stand on end , and congeals , our blood with horror , possessed , at the same time , the insinuating loveliness of the sweetest poetry . He plays with love like a child ; and his songs are breathed out like melting sighs .
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Lear stands first for the profound intensity of the passion ; Macbeth for the wildness of the imagination and the rapidity of the action ; Othello for the progressive interest and powerful alternations of feeling ; Hamlet for the ...
Lear stands first for the profound intensity of the passion ; Macbeth for the wildness of the imagination and the rapidity of the action ; Othello for the progressive interest and powerful alternations of feeling ; Hamlet for the ...
Page 11
... he staggers under the weight of his own purposes and the suggestions of others ; he stands at bay with his own situation ; and from the superstitious awe and breathless suspense into which the communications of the Weird Sisters ...
... he staggers under the weight of his own purposes and the suggestions of others ; he stands at bay with his own situation ; and from the superstitious awe and breathless suspense into which the communications of the Weird Sisters ...
Page 16
... only to betray him in deeper consequence , and after showing him all the pomp of their art , discover their ma . lignant delight in his disappointed hopes , by that bitter taunt , " Why stands Macbeth thus amazedly ?
... only to betray him in deeper consequence , and after showing him all the pomp of their art , discover their ma . lignant delight in his disappointed hopes , by that bitter taunt , " Why stands Macbeth thus amazedly ?
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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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