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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... merit , and that effrontery was the proper object of ridicule and re- proach . Discoursing on the story of Circe , he illustrated the fatal effects of intempe- rance ; and rehearsing the fable of the Sy- rens , he warned his disciples ...
... merit , and that effrontery was the proper object of ridicule and re- proach . Discoursing on the story of Circe , he illustrated the fatal effects of intempe- rance ; and rehearsing the fable of the Sy- rens , he warned his disciples ...
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... merit or demerit of human actions . But this can scarcely proceed from any other cause than the diversity of our feelings , and the necessity we are under of measuring the dispositions of others by our own . Even this moral principle ...
... merit or demerit of human actions . But this can scarcely proceed from any other cause than the diversity of our feelings , and the necessity we are under of measuring the dispositions of others by our own . Even this moral principle ...
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... merit of conducting us to the temple of truth , by an easier and more agree- able path than that of mere metaphysics . We often confound the writer who imitates the passions , with him who only describes them . Shakespeare imitates ...
... merit of conducting us to the temple of truth , by an easier and more agree- able path than that of mere metaphysics . We often confound the writer who imitates the passions , with him who only describes them . Shakespeare imitates ...
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... merit , to a person of lively fancy , and he will probably applaud . Some circumstances strike him : they assemble a group of images in his own mind ; they please him , and he perceives not , in the ardour of the operation , that the ...
... merit , to a person of lively fancy , and he will probably applaud . Some circumstances strike him : they assemble a group of images in his own mind ; they please him , and he perceives not , in the ardour of the operation , that the ...
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... merit , and entitled to higher honour . Alexander , after the conquest of Persia , grew more vain and more extrava gantly ambitious than before . In this manner , by joy , by the prospect , and proximity of a more splendid object , and ...
... merit , and entitled to higher honour . Alexander , after the conquest of Persia , grew more vain and more extrava gantly ambitious than before . In this manner , by joy , by the prospect , and proximity of a more splendid object , and ...
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affection agitated agreeable Alcibiades ambition amiable amusement appear appetites arise attention become beneficence cerning character circumstances Claudius conduct consequence Cordelia delight delineation desire dexterity disappointment discernment display dispositions dramatic emotion endeavours esteem excellent excite exhibited expresses exquisite external Falstaff fancy father fear feelings flattered Fluellen give gratified guilt Hamlet hath heart Hecuba honour human nature humour Iachimo illustrated imagination imitation Imogen indignation indulgence influence ingra inhuman invention Jaques kind King King Lear Laertes Lear less Lord Macbeth mankind manner melancholy ment merit mind misanthropy moral never object observe occasion Olorus opinion pain passion persons pleasure poet poetical justice possess Prince principles proceed propriety qualities racter reflection renders representation resentment Richard scene seems sense sensibility sentiments Shakespeare shew sion Sir John Falstaff situation sorrow soul spirit suffers temper thee things thou Timon Timon of Athens tion tragedy tural uncon violent virtue
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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.