Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of Macbeth and Richard III . , which is an exceedingly ingenious piece of analytical criti- cism ...
... poet ) , began a work of a similar kind about forty years ago , but he only lived to finish a parallel between the characters of Macbeth and Richard III . , which is an exceedingly ingenious piece of analytical criti- cism ...
Pagina xv
... poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and ...
... poet , like the clown in the proverb , must strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and ...
Pagina xvi
... poet . Fortunately for his art , Shakspeare lived in an age extremely suscepti- ble of noble and tender impressions , but which had still enough of the firmness inherited from a vigorous olden time , not to shrink back with dismay from ...
... poet . Fortunately for his art , Shakspeare lived in an age extremely suscepti- ble of noble and tender impressions , but which had still enough of the firmness inherited from a vigorous olden time , not to shrink back with dismay from ...
Pagina xvii
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of ... poet : but to be a good critic , he B ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry PREFACE . xvii.
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of ... poet : but to be a good critic , he B ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry PREFACE . xvii.
Pagina xviii
William Hazlitt. ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry as a man deliber- ately writes , such , and such only will he like . Dr. John- son's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare looks like a labo- rious attempt to bury the ...
William Hazlitt. ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry as a man deliber- ately writes , such , and such only will he like . Dr. John- son's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare looks like a labo- rious attempt to bury the ...
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Pagina 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Pagina 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pagina 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Pagina 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Pagina 104 - 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...
Pagina 84 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Pagina xx - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Pagina 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Pagina 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Pagina 101 - 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 ? For fear of that I...