Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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... scene or as to acting , would impose . But it is a great critical mistake or confusion - though frequently committed to suppose that our poet , while disdaining all merely theatrical fetters in the composition of his plays , had not ...
... scene or as to acting , would impose . But it is a great critical mistake or confusion - though frequently committed to suppose that our poet , while disdaining all merely theatrical fetters in the composition of his plays , had not ...
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... scene , and so give double force to the illusion of his principal action . It is in the play of ' Hamlet , ' as every one knows , that he has done this most systematically and elabo- rately . Here he has not only made use of this means ...
... scene , and so give double force to the illusion of his principal action . It is in the play of ' Hamlet , ' as every one knows , that he has done this most systematically and elabo- rately . Here he has not only made use of this means ...
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... scene wherein he pleads for the preservation of his eyes ? Another element of this pathos is , the exceeding beauty which the poet has ascribed to the princely boy , which is made to affect the hearts of all who approach him , even the ...
... scene wherein he pleads for the preservation of his eyes ? Another element of this pathos is , the exceeding beauty which the poet has ascribed to the princely boy , which is made to affect the hearts of all who approach him , even the ...
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... scene where she thanks the French king and the Austrian duke for their espousal of her dear son's cause , but entreats them to wait for John's answer to the French am- bassador before they proceed to bloodshed . In the scene where she ...
... scene where she thanks the French king and the Austrian duke for their espousal of her dear son's cause , but entreats them to wait for John's answer to the French am- bassador before they proceed to bloodshed . In the scene where she ...
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... scene . It is simply because there is no pride in her nature - nothing but the indispensable self - respect of the woman , the mother , and the princess , and more especially because the whole previous tenour of this scene itself ...
... scene . It is simply because there is no pride in her nature - nothing but the indispensable self - respect of the woman , the mother , and the princess , and more especially because the whole previous tenour of this scene itself ...
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Page 313 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 114 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 362 - Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous ; And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Page 178 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 112 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 19 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 310 - O Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name : Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 125 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 312 - At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light, But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 130 - To be thus is nothing ; But to be safely thus. — Our fears in Banquo Stick deep ; and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd : 't is much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.