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.There are , it is true , passages , though , comparatively speaking , very few , where his poetry exceeds the bounds of true dialogue , where a too soaring imagination , a too luxuriant wit , rendered the complete dramatic ...
.There are , it is true , passages , though , comparatively speaking , very few , where his poetry exceeds the bounds of true dialogue , where a too soaring imagination , a too luxuriant wit , rendered the complete dramatic ...
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His comic characters are equally true , various , and profound , with his serious . So little is he disposed to caricature , that we may rather say many of his traits are almost too nice and delicate for the stage , that they can only ...
His comic characters are equally true , various , and profound , with his serious . So little is he disposed to caricature , that we may rather say many of his traits are almost too nice and delicate for the stage , that they can only ...
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We think the contrary is true ; and we might cite in proof of this remark not only the present play , but the conclusion of Lear , of Romeo and Juliet , of Macbeth , of Othello , even of Hamlet , and of other plays of less moment ...
We think the contrary is true ; and we might cite in proof of this remark not only the present play , but the conclusion of Lear , of Romeo and Juliet , of Macbeth , of Othello , even of Hamlet , and of other plays of less moment ...
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So true is it that folly is as often owing to a want of proper sentiments as to a want of understanding ! The exclamation of the ancient critic , Oh Menander and Nature , which of you copied from the ...
So true is it that folly is as often owing to a want of proper sentiments as to a want of understanding ! The exclamation of the ancient critic , Oh Menander and Nature , which of you copied from the ...
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If to invent according to nature be the true definition of genius , Shakspeare had more of this quality than any other writer . He might be said to have been a joint worker with nature , and to have created an imaginary world of his own ...
If to invent according to nature be the true definition of genius , Shakspeare had more of this quality than any other writer . He might be said to have been a joint worker with nature , and to have created an imaginary world of his own ...
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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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