Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of FluellenSamuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1812 - 448 Seiten |
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... governed by no regular principles . That a perfect knowledge of the nature and faculties of the mind is not to be ac- quired in our present condition , cannot pos- sibly be denied . Neither can the contrary be affirmed of any subject of ...
... governed by no regular principles . That a perfect knowledge of the nature and faculties of the mind is not to be ac- quired in our present condition , cannot pos- sibly be denied . Neither can the contrary be affirmed of any subject of ...
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... govern the rage of the tempests ; then will I believe , that the course of nature is regular and determined . " Thus , even external phænomena , to an un- instructed person , will seem as wild and in- congruous as the motions and ...
... govern the rage of the tempests ; then will I believe , that the course of nature is regular and determined . " Thus , even external phænomena , to an un- instructed person , will seem as wild and in- congruous as the motions and ...
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... nature of his own mind , and the principles most likely to rule him . Ex- cursions of the imagination , except in minds idly extravagant , are commonly governed by the probability of success . They are also regulated OF MACBETH . 39.
... nature of his own mind , and the principles most likely to rule him . Ex- cursions of the imagination , except in minds idly extravagant , are commonly governed by the probability of success . They are also regulated OF MACBETH . 39.
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... govern and give a train to our thoughts , these , in return , nourish and promote the passion . If any object appears to us more striking and excellent than usual , it com- municates a stronger impulse , and excites a keener and more ...
... govern and give a train to our thoughts , these , in return , nourish and promote the passion . If any object appears to us more striking and excellent than usual , it com- municates a stronger impulse , and excites a keener and more ...
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... govern him in various circumstances ; and sum up the whole with a general view of his character . In his first appearance , he discovers grief , aversion , and indignation . These emotions are in themselves indifferent : they are nei ...
... govern him in various circumstances ; and sum up the whole with a general view of his character . In his first appearance , he discovers grief , aversion , and indignation . These emotions are in themselves indifferent : they are nei ...
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Seite 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Seite 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Seite 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Seite 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Seite 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Seite 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Seite 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Seite 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Seite 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.