Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakspeare's Plays, 2. köideG. Bell and sons, 1908 |
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... internal bond that gathers together all the confused and strangely involved threads , forming them into one harmonious whole ? We must bear in mind that it is the comic view of life which here forms the basis of the drama , and ...
... internal bond that gathers together all the confused and strangely involved threads , forming them into one harmonious whole ? We must bear in mind that it is the comic view of life which here forms the basis of the drama , and ...
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... internal significance and to the ideal meaning of the whole . * Like the similar title of ' What You Will , ' it has been referred to the relation between the play and the public ( A. W. von Schlegel ) , and has been so interpreted as ...
... internal significance and to the ideal meaning of the whole . * Like the similar title of ' What You Will , ' it has been referred to the relation between the play and the public ( A. W. von Schlegel ) , and has been so interpreted as ...
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... internal passion , the value of which has to be set forth . But it is impossible to discuss such subjects with him , for in fact he is naturally wanting in all sense for what is humorous , fantastic , and romantic . Shakspeare is dear ...
... internal passion , the value of which has to be set forth . But it is impossible to discuss such subjects with him , for in fact he is naturally wanting in all sense for what is humorous , fantastic , and romantic . Shakspeare is dear ...
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... internally related to As You Like It . ' For , as in the latter case , waywardness and caprice , the unreasonableness and inconsistency of ... internal , 6 as well as the external matters of chance belong 28 [ BOOK V. SHAKSPEARE'S COMEDIES ,
... internally related to As You Like It . ' For , as in the latter case , waywardness and caprice , the unreasonableness and inconsistency of ... internal , 6 as well as the external matters of chance belong 28 [ BOOK V. SHAKSPEARE'S COMEDIES ,
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... internal . And yet a gentle shudder runs through our frame when we behold the otherwise good and noble Leontes when excited by trifling circumstances and suddenly seized by a force of passion in the form of a jealousy as blind as it is ...
... internal . And yet a gentle shudder runs through our frame when we behold the otherwise good and noble Leontes when excited by trifling circumstances and suddenly seized by a force of passion in the form of a jealousy as blind as it is ...
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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.