Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and LecturesEdward Howell, 1874 - 318 páginas |
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... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than -voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
... play of those powers of mind , which are spontaneous rather than -voluntary , and in which the effort required bears no proportion to the activity enjoyed . This is the state which permits the production of a highly pleasurable whole ...
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... play of the ancients , with reference to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakespeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
... play of the ancients , with reference to their ideal , does not hold out more glaring absurdities than any in Shakespeare ? On the Greek plan a man could more easily be a poet than a dramatist ; upon our plan more easily a dramatist ...
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... play and all the interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to suggest ...
... play and all the interest of our intellectual and moral being , till it leads us to a feeling and an object more awful than it seems to me compatible with even the present sub- ject to utter aloud , though I am most desirous to suggest ...
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... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd below , mediocrity furnished an occasion , a spark for the explosive materials col- lected behind the orchestra . But it ...
... play . Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run , only because nothing unusual above , or absurd below , mediocrity furnished an occasion , a spark for the explosive materials col- lected behind the orchestra . But it ...
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... play of words in the fourth line . The whole stanza presents at once the time , the appearance of the morning , and the two persons distinctly characterised , and in six simple lines puts the reader in possession of the whole argu- ment ...
... play of words in the fourth line . The whole stanza presents at once the time , the appearance of the morning , and the two persons distinctly characterised , and in six simple lines puts the reader in possession of the whole argu- ment ...
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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures Samuel Taylor Coleridge Visualização integral - 1874 |
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Shakespeare. Ben Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures Samuel Taylor Coleridge Visualização integral - 1874 |
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admirable Adonis ancient appear audience Beaumont and Fletcher beauty BEN JONSON Brutus Cæsar cause character circumstances comedy comic contrast Cymbeline devil dialogue drama dramatists effect excellent excitement exquisite fancy father fear feeling fool genius Greek Hamlet harmony hath heart heaven Henry honour human Iago Iago's images imagination imitation instance intellect Jonson judgment Julius Cæsar language Lear Lear's Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth means ment metre mind moral nature noble object observe Othello passage passion perhaps persons play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Polonius present reason Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet scene Sejanus sense Seward Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare never Shakespearian soliloquy speare speech spirit supposed syllable thee Theobald thing thou thought tion Titus Andronicus tragedy Troilus and Cressida true truth Twelfth Night unity verse Warburton's whilst whole words
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Página 142 - Amen, amen ! But come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine.
Página 171 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Página 231 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Página 88 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Página 185 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
Página 87 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Página 143 - For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. Come, gentle night: come, loving, black-brow'd night Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 225 - Good sir, why do you start ; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? — I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction...