Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakspeare's Plays, 2. köideG. Bell and sons, 1908 |
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... objects , as we are of the reverse , a life governed solely by chance , whim and caprice . We would all prefer the greatest possible equality in the mixture of the usual and the unusual , of accident and intention , of whim and ...
... objects , as we are of the reverse , a life governed solely by chance , whim and caprice . We would all prefer the greatest possible equality in the mixture of the usual and the unusual , of accident and intention , of whim and ...
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... object by an equally sudden change of circumstances and relations ; and lastly , how the coy- ness of the shepherdess Phoebe is overcome much in the same way , and she is in the end united to her faithful , good - natured simpleton of a ...
... object by an equally sudden change of circumstances and relations ; and lastly , how the coy- ness of the shepherdess Phoebe is overcome much in the same way , and she is in the end united to her faithful , good - natured simpleton of a ...
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... objects ; .nowhere do we find preconsidered , 6 * Rosalynde : Euphues ' Golden Legacy , etc. , 1590 , re - issued in 1592 and 1598 , and again recently reprinted in Collier's Shakespeare's Library , vol . i or , in fact , deeper motives ...
... objects ; .nowhere do we find preconsidered , 6 * Rosalynde : Euphues ' Golden Legacy , etc. , 1590 , re - issued in 1592 and 1598 , and again recently reprinted in Collier's Shakespeare's Library , vol . i or , in fact , deeper motives ...
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... objects , and from intentions difficult to realise ; an amusing play of caprice , of imagination , and of wavering sensations and feelings . A life like this , however , is possible only in the Forest of Arden , in the midst of similar ...
... objects , and from intentions difficult to realise ; an amusing play of caprice , of imagination , and of wavering sensations and feelings . A life like this , however , is possible only in the Forest of Arden , in the midst of similar ...
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... object of his journey and overlooking just that with which he himself stands in obvious relation - agrees perfectly with the meaning of the play , as well as with the bold and strongly - marked outlines in which the young poet has ...
... object of his journey and overlooking just that with which he himself stands in obvious relation - agrees perfectly with the meaning of the play , as well as with the bold and strongly - marked outlines in which the young poet has ...
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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.