Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakspeare's Plays, 2. köideG. Bell and sons, 1908 |
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... reason , I place at the head of my discussion , a comedy in which the two sides of the comic ( as conceived by Shakspeare ) are almost equally blended , and which may accordingly be regarded as the prototype of the Shak- spearian ...
... reason , I place at the head of my discussion , a comedy in which the two sides of the comic ( as conceived by Shakspeare ) are almost equally blended , and which may accordingly be regarded as the prototype of the Shak- spearian ...
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... reason that the drama , as such , in spite of the confused play of caprice and accident ( which forms its substance ) does nevertheless not bear within itself the impress of accident or of a conglomeration of caprices , but that , on ...
... reason that the drama , as such , in spite of the confused play of caprice and accident ( which forms its substance ) does nevertheless not bear within itself the impress of accident or of a conglomeration of caprices , but that , on ...
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... reason . It is not merely the experiencing such a life , the very beholding it produces that gaiety , that inward contentment at which we are all aiming . And thus Shakspeare could with justice - especially of this one of his comedies ...
... reason . It is not merely the experiencing such a life , the very beholding it produces that gaiety , that inward contentment at which we are all aiming . And thus Shakspeare could with justice - especially of this one of his comedies ...
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... reasons given by Malone , Chalmers Drake , and others - who place it at a much later date ( 1613-14 ) -are of no greater value , and in themselves of no weight whatever , compared with the considerations which language and the character ...
... reasons given by Malone , Chalmers Drake , and others - who place it at a much later date ( 1613-14 ) -are of no greater value , and in themselves of no weight whatever , compared with the considerations which language and the character ...
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... reason or free will , he alone has gone there without any occasion or reason whatever ; he has even done so against his own inclination as the good cheer at court suited him far better ; in other words he has done so deliberately in the ...
... reason or free will , he alone has gone there without any occasion or reason whatever ; he has even done so against his own inclination as the good cheer at court suited him far better ; in other words he has done so deliberately in the ...
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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.