Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... scenes full of unclouded humour . And in his latest tragedies , in Mac- beth and Lear , let no one imagine that what he depicted there of austerity and cruelty , was less known and experienced by the poet than we experience it ; it was ...
... scenes full of unclouded humour . And in his latest tragedies , in Mac- beth and Lear , let no one imagine that what he depicted there of austerity and cruelty , was less known and experienced by the poet than we experience it ; it was ...
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... scene of these habits , characters , and incidents ! The scene is laid in Vienna . Moral corruption here " boils and bubbles till it o'erruns " , society is destroyed by it , and all decorum is lost . We cast a glance into the prisons ...
... scene of these habits , characters , and incidents ! The scene is laid in Vienna . Moral corruption here " boils and bubbles till it o'erruns " , society is destroyed by it , and all decorum is lost . We cast a glance into the prisons ...
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... scene - shifter and observer , before whom the action seems to pass like a drama within a drama ; in this way we are unconcerned for the evil issue of the evil actions . In the novel and in Whetstone's piece , no trace of this ...
... scene - shifter and observer , before whom the action seems to pass like a drama within a drama ; in this way we are unconcerned for the evil issue of the evil actions . In the novel and in Whetstone's piece , no trace of this ...
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... scene , where he is at first quite filled with the Duke's representations of the evils of life and the consolations of death , but imme- diately afterwards he is overwhelmed by his own ideas of the horrors of death , compared to which ...
... scene , where he is at first quite filled with the Duke's representations of the evils of life and the consolations of death , but imme- diately afterwards he is overwhelmed by his own ideas of the horrors of death , compared to which ...
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... scenes , in their estimate of characters ; and later critics have with acuteness and penetration set forth the whole structure of this and similar favourite plays . The task lay before the poet , to exhibit the passion of jealousy to ...
... scenes , in their estimate of characters ; and later critics have with acuteness and penetration set forth the whole structure of this and similar favourite plays . The task lay before the poet , to exhibit the passion of jealousy to ...
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Página 53 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 621 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Página 66 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 330 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 8 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Página 297 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Página 136 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Página 335 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.
Página 228 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched Makes thee the happier : — heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly ; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Página 285 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.