Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 páginas |
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... built far higher in learning , solid , but slow in his performances . Shakespeare , with the English man - of - war , lesser in bulk , but lighter in sailing , could turn with all En Place tides , tack about , and take advantage.
... built far higher in learning , solid , but slow in his performances . Shakespeare , with the English man - of - war , lesser in bulk , but lighter in sailing , could turn with all En Place tides , tack about , and take advantage.
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... turns of wit and repartee , which we find in the first comedies of Shakespeare , was in large measure derived from Lyly . § 24. In all that is external and mechanical the theatre was still comparatively rude . During Shakespeare's ...
... turns of wit and repartee , which we find in the first comedies of Shakespeare , was in large measure derived from Lyly . § 24. In all that is external and mechanical the theatre was still comparatively rude . During Shakespeare's ...
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... lopped limbs and the reek of blood . If for an hour he was brought into contact with the tragedy of gross and material horror , it was only that he EARLY COMEDIES . 57 might turn away from it for 56 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE .
... lopped limbs and the reek of blood . If for an hour he was brought into contact with the tragedy of gross and material horror , it was only that he EARLY COMEDIES . 57 might turn away from it for 56 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE .
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Edward Dowden. EARLY COMEDIES . 57 might turn away from it for ever . Whether he wrote a few lines of the play here and a few lines there , or wrote them not , concerns us but little ; the play taken as a whole may justly be described as ...
Edward Dowden. EARLY COMEDIES . 57 might turn away from it for ever . Whether he wrote a few lines of the play here and a few lines there , or wrote them not , concerns us but little ; the play taken as a whole may justly be described as ...
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... turns to sweetness his light adversity ; Rosa- lind is not afflicted as she strolls through the wood- land lawns which give Orlando shelter ; Jaques , the dilettante satirist , is anything but a Timon , and in fact when he rails at ...
... turns to sweetness his light adversity ; Rosa- lind is not afflicted as she strolls through the wood- land lawns which give Orlando shelter ; Jaques , the dilettante satirist , is anything but a Timon , and in fact when he rails at ...
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Página 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Página 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Página 132 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Página 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Página 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...