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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... give him - which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have themselves inspired , and which is indispensable to realize to us that living and breathing creation which each of these dramas primarily was in the mind ...
... give him - which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have themselves inspired , and which is indispensable to realize to us that living and breathing creation which each of these dramas primarily was in the mind ...
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... give to a certain number of the most pro- minent parts , and that full share of professional vanity which constantly inclined him to attach to those parts a too exclusive and absorbing importance , were quite enough to prevent even ...
... give to a certain number of the most pro- minent parts , and that full share of professional vanity which constantly inclined him to attach to those parts a too exclusive and absorbing importance , were quite enough to prevent even ...
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... gives a more systematic and complete account of Shakespeare's female characters , than Hazlitt's volume affords of his characters in general . Now , the more that a deep and intimate knowledge of the noble and subtle essence of ...
... gives a more systematic and complete account of Shakespeare's female characters , than Hazlitt's volume affords of his characters in general . Now , the more that a deep and intimate knowledge of the noble and subtle essence of ...
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... give my child his kingdom here , For he that holds his kingdom holds the law : Therefore , since law itself is perfect wrong , How can the law forbid my tongue to curse ? * Equally logical - more strikingly and terribly con- sequential ...
... give my child his kingdom here , For he that holds his kingdom holds the law : Therefore , since law itself is perfect wrong , How can the law forbid my tongue to curse ? * Equally logical - more strikingly and terribly con- sequential ...
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... gives the prevailing tone to the whole character ; it is the predominance of imagination . In the poetical , fan- ciful , excitable cast of her mind , in the excess of the ideal power , tinging all her affections , exalting all her ...
... gives the prevailing tone to the whole character ; it is the predominance of imagination . In the poetical , fan- ciful , excitable cast of her mind , in the excess of the ideal power , tinging all her affections , exalting all her ...
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