Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: With an Account of His Reputation at Various PeriodsC. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 449 páginas |
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... success in his profession . In fact , in the glowing tribute which he subsequently paid to the memory of his friend he took care to insist upon his proficiency in the very particular which in the conversation with Drummond he is ...
... success in his profession . In fact , in the glowing tribute which he subsequently paid to the memory of his friend he took care to insist upon his proficiency in the very particular which in the conversation with Drummond he is ...
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... success attended the attack on ryme , though it is pos- sible that it may have had indirectly some influence in strengthening the tendency to make blank verse the favorite measure for dramatic composition . A far more determined effort ...
... success attended the attack on ryme , though it is pos- sible that it may have had indirectly some influence in strengthening the tendency to make blank verse the favorite measure for dramatic composition . A far more determined effort ...
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... success in life frequently more than takes its place . I am not forgetting the fact that long before the period of which we are now speaking , plays had ap- peared in which the unities are fully observed . There are indeed certain ...
... success in life frequently more than takes its place . I am not forgetting the fact that long before the period of which we are now speaking , plays had ap- peared in which the unities are fully observed . There are indeed certain ...
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... success for him who strove to revive the practices and customs of the past . " Nor is it needful , " he continued , " or almost pos- sible in these our times , and to such auditors as com- monly things are presented , to observe the old ...
... success for him who strove to revive the practices and customs of the past . " Nor is it needful , " he continued , " or almost pos- sible in these our times , and to such auditors as com- monly things are presented , to observe the old ...
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... successful op- position . Few of the great names connected with our early drama conformed to its requirements save in occasional instances . Against it could always be cited at that time , as in later days , the practice of Shake ...
... successful op- position . Few of the great names connected with our early drama conformed to its requirements save in occasional instances . Against it could always be cited at that time , as in later days , the practice of Shake ...
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Página 308 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Página 299 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 108 - THE stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies ; but in life it doth much mischief — sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.
Página 47 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 141 - But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Página 243 - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Página 23 - First, if it be objected, that what I publish is no true poem, in the strict laws of time, I confess it : as also in the want of a proper chorus ; whose habit and moods are such and so difficult, as not any, whom I have seen, since the ancients, no, not they who have most presently affected laws, have yet come in the way of.
Página 20 - As he dare serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As for it he himself must justly hate; — To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and...
Página 397 - Some Reflections on Mr Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespear, in an Essay directed to John Dryden, Esq.