Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1817 - 352 páginas |
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... was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on the Drama , which give by far the best account of the plays of Shake- spear that has hitherto appeared . The only circumstances in which it was thought not im- possible to viii PREFACE .
... was Schlegel's very admirable Lectures on the Drama , which give by far the best account of the plays of Shake- spear that has hitherto appeared . The only circumstances in which it was thought not im- possible to viii PREFACE .
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... give " reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakespear . " Certainly , no writer among ourselves has shewn either the same enthusias- tic admiration of his genius , or the same philo- sophical acuteness in pointing out his ...
... give " reasons for the faith which we English have in Shakespear . " Certainly , no writer among ourselves has shewn either the same enthusias- tic admiration of his genius , or the same philo- sophical acuteness in pointing out his ...
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... gives us the history of minds ; he lays open to us , in a single word , a whole series of preceding conditions . His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height , as is the case with so many tragic poets , who ...
... gives us the history of minds ; he lays open to us , in a single word , a whole series of preceding conditions . His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height , as is the case with so many tragic poets , who ...
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... gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may sometimes also give vent to itself in anti- thetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have not been duly weighed . Shakespear , who was ...
... gives wit ; and , as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter , it may sometimes also give vent to itself in anti- thetical comparisons . " Besides , the rights of the poetical form have not been duly weighed . Shakespear , who was ...
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... give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the de- scription of flowers in The Winter's Tale , than to describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages ...
... give the description of Dover cliff in Lear , or the de- scription of flowers in The Winter's Tale , than to describe the objects of a sixth sense ; nor do we think he would have any very profound feeling of the beauty of the passages ...
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admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus banished Banquo beauty Ben Jonson blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius character Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona doth eyes Falstaff fancy father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human Iago imagination Juliet Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity play pleasure poet poetry prince racter refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shake Shakespear shew shewn Sir Toby sleep soul speak spear speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee thing thou art thought tion Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto wife wild words Yorkshire Tragedy youth
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Página 174 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Página 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Página 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Página 259 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 151 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Página 352 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Página 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...