Shakespeare. Ben Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and LecturesE. 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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admirable Adonis ancient appear audience Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Brutus Cæsar cause character CHIG circumstances comedy comic contrast Cymbeline dialogue drama dramatists effect excellent excitement exquisite fancy fear feeling fool genius give Greek Hamlet harmony hath heart heaven Henry honour human Iago Iago's images imagination imitation instance intellect Jonson judgment Julius Cæsar King language Lear Lear's Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth means ment metre mind moral nature noble object observe Othello passage passion perhaps play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Polonius present reason Richard Romeo and Juliet scene seems 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 Venus and Adonis verse Warburton whilst whole words
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Página 162 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred 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 125 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Página 150 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill «erve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world : — A plague o...
Página 221 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 239 - 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 34 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 96 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 4 - ... while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry.
Página 46 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Página 196 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.