Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: & Lectures on the English Poets |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page xix
... equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations , and pourtray in the most accurate manner , with only a few apparent violations of costume , the spirit of the ancient Romans , of the French in their ...
... equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to distant ages and foreign nations , and pourtray in the most accurate manner , with only a few apparent violations of costume , the spirit of the ancient Romans , of the French in their ...
Page xxii
... equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity All that I before wished was , not to admit that the former preponderated . He is highly in- ventive in comic situations and motives . It will be hardly possible to show whence ...
... equal elevation , and possesses equal extent and profundity All that I before wished was , not to admit that the former preponderated . He is highly in- ventive in comic situations and motives . It will be hardly possible to show whence ...
Page xxiii
... equal scales , stuffed full of " swelling figures and sonorous epithets . " Nor could it well be otherwise ; Dr. Johnson's general powers of reasoning overlaid his critical susceptibility . All his ideas were cast in a given mould , in ...
... equal scales , stuffed full of " swelling figures and sonorous epithets . " Nor could it well be otherwise ; Dr. Johnson's general powers of reasoning overlaid his critical susceptibility . All his ideas were cast in a given mould , in ...
Page 8
... equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in CYMBELINE have to encounter the abrupt declivities of hill and valley : Touchstone and Audrey jog along a level path . The deer ...
... equal to the greatest things , he was not above an attention to the smallest . Thus the gallant sportsmen in CYMBELINE have to encounter the abrupt declivities of hill and valley : Touchstone and Audrey jog along a level path . The deer ...
Page 11
... equal to the struggle with fate and conscience . He now " bends up each corporal instrument to the terrible feat ; " at other times his heart misgives him , and he is cowed and abashed by his success . " The deed , no less than the ...
... equal to the struggle with fate and conscience . He now " bends up each corporal instrument to the terrible feat ; " at other times his heart misgives him , and he is cowed and abashed by his success . " The deed , no less than the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable affections Antony Apemantus appear Banquo beauty Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban character Chaucer circumstances Claudio comedy Cordelia Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona dost doth dramatic equal eyes Falstaff fancy fear feeling fool friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago imagination interest Juliet king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner Mark Antony MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble o'er objects Othello passages passion person pity play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry prince refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew Sir Toby sleep soul speak speech spirit story striking style sweet tender thee thing thou art thought Titus Andronicus tragedy true truth words writer Yorkshire Tragedy youth