Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English DramaLittle, Brown, 1866 - 425 páginas |
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... poet much and his critics little , has thought his own thoughts and trusted his own judgment upon this subject , until , with a mingling of confidence and diffidence which it would be difficult to explain , he now ventures to offer his ...
... poet much and his critics little , has thought his own thoughts and trusted his own judgment upon this subject , until , with a mingling of confidence and diffidence which it would be difficult to explain , he now ventures to offer his ...
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... poet of our race and of mankind , when Thomas Betterton , the most celebrated London actor of his day , journeyed from the scene of Shakespeare's metropolitan dis- tinction to that of his rustic youth and his rural retirement , in the ...
... poet of our race and of mankind , when Thomas Betterton , the most celebrated London actor of his day , journeyed from the scene of Shakespeare's metropolitan dis- tinction to that of his rustic youth and his rural retirement , in the ...
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... poet was , and learn , though imperfectly , his life's almost uneventful story . Warwickshire , in Old England , seems to have been the favorite haunt , if it were not the ances- tral soil , of a family whose name more than any other in ...
... poet was , and learn , though imperfectly , his life's almost uneventful story . Warwickshire , in Old England , seems to have been the favorite haunt , if it were not the ances- tral soil , of a family whose name more than any other in ...
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... poets , which , though hitherto passed by , cannot , I think , be mistaken . When Othello , in the dawning of his jealousy , chides Desdemona for being without the handkerchief , his first love - token , he tells her : " There's magic ...
... poets , which , though hitherto passed by , cannot , I think , be mistaken . When Othello , in the dawning of his jealousy , chides Desdemona for being without the handkerchief , his first love - token , he tells her : " There's magic ...
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... poets who wrote on kindred subjects , occur in a play founded upon an Italian novel which had not been ren- dered into our language in his day , can we reason- ably doubt that he was sufficiently an Italian scholar to read Ariosto ...
... poets who wrote on kindred subjects , occur in a play founded upon an Italian novel which had not been ren- dered into our language in his day , can we reason- ably doubt that he was sufficiently an Italian scholar to read Ariosto ...
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Página 255 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Página 38 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 302 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 219 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 279 - Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Página 155 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página 133 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 284 - Cassio appears, at the end of the first and the beginning of the second...
Página 211 - Egyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Página 168 - His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.