Shakespeare Commentaries, Band 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... scenes full of unclouded humour . And in his latest tragedies , in Mac- beth and Lear , let no one imagine that what he depicted there of austerity and cruelty , was less known and experienced by the poet than we experience it ; it was ...
... scenes full of unclouded humour . And in his latest tragedies , in Mac- beth and Lear , let no one imagine that what he depicted there of austerity and cruelty , was less known and experienced by the poet than we experience it ; it was ...
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... scene of these habits , characters , and incidents ! The scene is laid in Vienna . Moral corruption here " boils and bubbles till it o'erruns " , society is destroyed by it , and all decorum is lost . We cast a glance into the prisons ...
... scene of these habits , characters , and incidents ! The scene is laid in Vienna . Moral corruption here " boils and bubbles till it o'erruns " , society is destroyed by it , and all decorum is lost . We cast a glance into the prisons ...
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... scene - shifter and observer , before whom the action seems to pass like a drama within a drama ; in this way we are unconcerned for the evil issue of the evil actions . In the novel and in Whetstone's piece , no trace of this ...
... scene - shifter and observer , before whom the action seems to pass like a drama within a drama ; in this way we are unconcerned for the evil issue of the evil actions . In the novel and in Whetstone's piece , no trace of this ...
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... scene , where he is at first quite filled with the Duke's representations of the evils of life and the consolations of death , but imme- diately afterwards he is overwhelmed by his own ideas of the horrors of death , compared to which ...
... scene , where he is at first quite filled with the Duke's representations of the evils of life and the consolations of death , but imme- diately afterwards he is overwhelmed by his own ideas of the horrors of death , compared to which ...
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... scenes , in their estimate of characters ; and later critics have with acuteness and penetration set forth the whole structure of this and similar favourite plays . The task lay before the poet , to exhibit the passion of jealousy to ...
... scenes , in their estimate of characters ; and later critics have with acuteness and penetration set forth the whole structure of this and similar favourite plays . The task lay before the poet , to exhibit the passion of jealousy to ...
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Seite 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Seite 64 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Seite 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Seite 295 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Seite 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Seite 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Seite 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Seite 328 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Seite 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.