Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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Página xv
... manners or refuting his plea for a dramatic chorus ; but on the whole they recognised the claims of the classical models . The more the dramatic fervour failed , the more the professed critics counselled observance of the rules . In ...
... manners or refuting his plea for a dramatic chorus ; but on the whole they recognised the claims of the classical models . The more the dramatic fervour failed , the more the professed critics counselled observance of the rules . In ...
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... manners , it is unoriginal and dull ; and it is so negligible that it has apparently not been thought worth while to settle the question of its authorship.1 II The discussion on Shakespeare's attitude to the dramatic rules was closely ...
... manners , it is unoriginal and dull ; and it is so negligible that it has apparently not been thought worth while to settle the question of its authorship.1 II The discussion on Shakespeare's attitude to the dramatic rules was closely ...
Página xxiii
... manners , he discreetly refuses to say how Shakespeare came to know of them . As he had not thought out the matter for himself , he feared to tread where the lesser men rushed in . But though he records the evidence brought forward by ...
... manners , he discreetly refuses to say how Shakespeare came to know of them . As he had not thought out the matter for himself , he feared to tread where the lesser men rushed in . But though he records the evidence brought forward by ...
Página xxv
... manner in which he advances his information would seem to show that it was not of his own getting . He may have been indebted for it to the scholar who two 1 The only extant Elizabethan translation of the Menaechmi , however , is of ...
... manner in which he advances his information would seem to show that it was not of his own getting . He may have been indebted for it to the scholar who two 1 The only extant Elizabethan translation of the Menaechmi , however , is of ...
Página xxvii
... manner , and in some passages the quiet humour has proved too subtle for his animosity . There was more impartiality in the judgment of Johnson : " Dr. Farmer , you have done that which was never done before ; that is , you have ...
... manner , and in some passages the quiet humour has proved too subtle for his animosity . There was more impartiality in the judgment of Johnson : " Dr. Farmer , you have done that which was never done before ; that is , you have ...
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Página 103 - 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 ecstasies 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 7 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página lxii - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Página 110 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 103 - Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world...
Página 101 - ... always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 121 - perhaps we are not to look for his beginning, like those of other writers, in his least perfect works ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did that for aught I know," says he, " the performances of his youth, as they were the most vigorous, were the best.
Página 106 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Página 109 - ... while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur, and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it. Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the V/V line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures.
Página 112 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.