A Glance Toward ShakespeareAtlantic Monthly Press, 1922 - 115 páginas |
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... given the best example to the rest of the troupe by disappear- ing himself . That Shakespeare is overloaded with thought is indubitable , yet the very plays which are most over- loaded with thought are the ones where the action moves ...
... given the best example to the rest of the troupe by disappear- ing himself . That Shakespeare is overloaded with thought is indubitable , yet the very plays which are most over- loaded with thought are the ones where the action moves ...
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... given a final interpretation of any one of the great rôles . Even when they are murdered by bad actors , they come to life again , as true creatures of the stage should do . The rôles are so elastic and so theatrical that they encourage ...
... given a final interpretation of any one of the great rôles . Even when they are murdered by bad actors , they come to life again , as true creatures of the stage should do . The rôles are so elastic and so theatrical that they encourage ...
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... given by men who had got all their Shakespeare from books . The plays are full of stage secrets which books cannot preserve , and which are beginning to perish to - day like sea urchins at low tide . They have been expounded and illumi ...
... given by men who had got all their Shakespeare from books . The plays are full of stage secrets which books cannot preserve , and which are beginning to perish to - day like sea urchins at low tide . They have been expounded and illumi ...
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... given them hardly a chance to show their good points , or work up " conceptions " of the rôles . Yet he has given them just a hook or two on which to hang stage characters , and they almost always hang bogies 23 ROMEO AND JULIET.
... given them hardly a chance to show their good points , or work up " conceptions " of the rôles . Yet he has given them just a hook or two on which to hang stage characters , and they almost always hang bogies 23 ROMEO AND JULIET.
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... given . - Anæmic persons may mutter that two murders are not so terrible as one , and eleven ghosts not so terri- fying as one , and that many curses are not so impres- sive as one for it appears that the terrible Queen Margaret is ...
... given . - Anæmic persons may mutter that two murders are not so terrible as one , and eleven ghosts not so terri- fying as one , and that many curses are not so impres- sive as one for it appears that the terrible Queen Margaret is ...
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Página 100 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
Página 103 - What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new...
Página 64 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
Página 72 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 72 - That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Página 63 - I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast...
Página 75 - Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 73 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting ° martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry ° that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,° frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 99 - And see the brave day sunk in hideous night ; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white ; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make...
Página 14 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.