Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakspeare's Plays, 2. köideG. Bell and sons, 1908 |
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... actual experience ; that such a romantic mode of life in the loneliness of a forest is but a poetical dream ; that , in fact , real life cannot be carried on or treated in the manner in which it is by almost all the persons represented ...
... actual experience ; that such a romantic mode of life in the loneliness of a forest is but a poetical dream ; that , in fact , real life cannot be carried on or treated in the manner in which it is by almost all the persons represented ...
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... actual sense of the word . And yet it is just in this that he again , under the mask of folly , shows a trait of genuine human nature , noble unselfishness and fidelity . Lastly , while all the other characters appear more or less like ...
... actual sense of the word . And yet it is just in this that he again , under the mask of folly , shows a trait of genuine human nature , noble unselfishness and fidelity . Lastly , while all the other characters appear more or less like ...
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... actual death . It is purely an accident that the babe is saved at the very moment that the noble- man who exposed it is torn to pieces by a bear , and that his ship , with all on board , is lost , so that no tidings could be carried ...
... actual death . It is purely an accident that the babe is saved at the very moment that the noble- man who exposed it is torn to pieces by a bear , and that his ship , with all on board , is lost , so that no tidings could be carried ...
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... actual reality ; we fancy we see ourselves and our surroundings but reflected in the mirror of poetry . On the other side , however , the magic power of the mar- vellous reveals its whole force , the laws of nature are set aside , the ...
... actual reality ; we fancy we see ourselves and our surroundings but reflected in the mirror of poetry . On the other side , however , the magic power of the mar- vellous reveals its whole force , the laws of nature are set aside , the ...
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... actual wonder ; the Magical , the Extraordinary and the Supernatural cause as much amazement as they would in our own every- day life . The dramas , therefore , evidently take their standpoint on the ideal boundary where the airy ...
... actual wonder ; the Magical , the Extraordinary and the Supernatural cause as much amazement as they would in our own every- day life . The dramas , therefore , evidently take their standpoint on the ideal boundary where the airy ...
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Page 425 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 336 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 62 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Page 62 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 422 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 437 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Page 437 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He, therefore, remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.
Page 437 - It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Page 157 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 337 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.