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Page vii
... interest in Hamlet is more remote and reflex ' ; he had misquoted a passage and bungled an allusion . For these sins ( and sins they are , though they leave the merits of the book untouched ) , as well as for the weightier one of being ...
... interest in Hamlet is more remote and reflex ' ; he had misquoted a passage and bungled an allusion . For these sins ( and sins they are , though they leave the merits of the book untouched ) , as well as for the weightier one of being ...
Page xxiv
... interest in them . Shakespear's bold and happy flights of imagination were equally thrown away upon our author . He was not only without any particular fineness of organic sensibility , alive to all the " mighty world of ear and eye ...
... interest in them . Shakespear's bold and happy flights of imagination were equally thrown away upon our author . He was not only without any particular fineness of organic sensibility , alive to all the " mighty world of ear and eye ...
Page 1
... interest becomes more aerial and refined from the principle of perspective intro- duced into the subject by the ... interests of the story together are never entirely broken . The most straggling and seemingly casual incidents are ...
... interest becomes more aerial and refined from the principle of perspective intro- duced into the subject by the ... interests of the story together are never entirely broken . The most straggling and seemingly casual incidents are ...
Page 2
... interest she takes in him ; and she is only interesting herself from her tenderness and constancy to her husband . It is the peculiar excellence of Shakespear's heroines , that they seem to exist only in their attachment to others ...
... interest she takes in him ; and she is only interesting herself from her tenderness and constancy to her husband . It is the peculiar excellence of Shakespear's heroines , that they seem to exist only in their attachment to others ...
Page 7
... interest arises out of the unalterable fidelity of Imogen to her husband under the most trying circumstances . Now the other parts of the picture are filled up with subordinate examples of the same feeling , variously modified by ...
... interest arises out of the unalterable fidelity of Imogen to her husband under the most trying circumstances . Now the other parts of the picture are filled up with subordinate examples of the same feeling , variously modified by ...
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