Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929 - 287 pages |
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Page xxxiv
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of prose , but not as it is poetry . Least of all was he qualified to be a judge of Shakespeare , who alone is high ...
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of prose , but not as it is poetry . Least of all was he qualified to be a judge of Shakespeare , who alone is high ...
Page 56
... poetry : it admits of rhetoric , which goes into argument and explana- tion , but it presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind , no jutting frieze , buttress , or coigne of vantage ' for poetry to make its pendant bed and ...
... poetry : it admits of rhetoric , which goes into argument and explana- tion , but it presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind , no jutting frieze , buttress , or coigne of vantage ' for poetry to make its pendant bed and ...
Page 106
... poetry put together . What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages , to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets can be opposed , dis- playing equal fancy and imagery ...
... poetry put together . What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages , to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets can be opposed , dis- playing equal fancy and imagery ...
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