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... wished to shine in every possible department ; a restless vanity would not allow him to be satisfied with the attempt to attain per- fection in any one walk of literature ; and from the VOL . II . B variety of subjects on which his mind ...
... wished to shine in every possible department ; a restless vanity would not allow him to be satisfied with the attempt to attain per- fection in any one walk of literature ; and from the VOL . II . B variety of subjects on which his mind ...
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... wished to exhibit the dan- gers of fanaticism , or rather , laying aside all circum- locution , the belief in any revelation whatever . For this purpose , he has most unjustifiably disfigured a great historical character , loaded him in ...
... wished to exhibit the dan- gers of fanaticism , or rather , laying aside all circum- locution , the belief in any revelation whatever . For this purpose , he has most unjustifiably disfigured a great historical character , loaded him in ...
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel. France , he wished in like manner to derive every ad- vantage from them . - He insisted on the seriousness , the severity , and simplicity of the Greeks ; and actually in so far approached them , that he ...
August Wilhelm von Schlegel. France , he wished in like manner to derive every ad- vantage from them . - He insisted on the seriousness , the severity , and simplicity of the Greeks ; and actually in so far approached them , that he ...
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... wished to oppose him , when far ad- vanced in years , to Voltaire , and even to give him a much higher place . Nothing , however , but the utmost rancour of party , or the utmost depravity of taste DRAMATIC LITERATURE . 23.
... wished to oppose him , when far ad- vanced in years , to Voltaire , and even to give him a much higher place . Nothing , however , but the utmost rancour of party , or the utmost depravity of taste DRAMATIC LITERATURE . 23.
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... the publicity of republican transactions is capable of producing on the stage , and he wished therefore to hold , in some degree , a middle course between Corneille and Shakspeare . The first act opens majestically 28 LECTURES ON.
... the publicity of republican transactions is capable of producing on the stage , and he wished therefore to hold , in some degree , a middle course between Corneille and Shakspeare . The first act opens majestically 28 LECTURES ON.
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acquainted actors admiration altogether appearance Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson bold Cæsar Calderon censure character circumstances comedy comic composition considered contemporaries Corneille critics death degree deserving displayed dramatic art dramatic poets effect elevation endeavours English entertainment exhibited expression Falstaff fancy favour feeling Fletcher foreign French FRENCH LANGUAGE genius German give Goethe Hamlet Hence Henry honour human imagination imitation intrigue invention Jonson Julius Cæsar King labours language less Lope de Vega lover Macbeth manner means merely mind Molière moral nation nature never noble observations opinion original Othello passion peculiar picture pieces Plautus players plays plot poet poetical poetry possessed Prince produced prose racters respect rhyme romantic scenes Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Spanish Spanish poetry speare species spectators spirit stage talent taste theatre theatrical thing tion Titus Andronicus tone tragedy tragical true truth verse Voltaire whole wished wonderful writers
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Página 207 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it : from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Página 188 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 112 - One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead. Ham. How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Página 313 - Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries : that people are the riches of a nation. The passage in which this maxim is presented would seem to be the germ of A modest proposal...
Página 115 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 242 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 188 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 139 - ... spectacles, is one of much greater importance. He has never, in fact, varnished over wild and bloodthirsty passions with a pleasing exterior, — never clothed crime and want of principle with a false show of greatness of soul ; and in that respect he is every way deserving of praise. Twice he has...
Página 282 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Página 192 - Whatever is most intoxicating in the odour of a southern spring, languishing in the song of the nightingale, or voluptuous in the first opening of the rose, is to be found in this poem.