Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays, 2. köideG. Bell and sons, 1895 |
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... give and to represent what- ever the spectators wished . This is not the case ; the play rather creates what it wishes , and the better it is the less can that which it gives be different from what it is . The title is rather intended ...
... give and to represent what- ever the spectators wished . This is not the case ; the play rather creates what it wishes , and the better it is the less can that which it gives be different from what it is . The title is rather intended ...
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... give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy -to contain an allusion to the allowance in money , enjoyed in 1612 , by Sir Robert Shirley , as Persian ambassador in London ; and in Act iii . 1 , they ...
... give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy -to contain an allusion to the allowance in money , enjoyed in 1612 , by Sir Robert Shirley , as Persian ambassador in London ; and in Act iii . 1 , they ...
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... gives the play its pecu- liar stamp , we shall again find that the title furnishes us with some clue . For the title ... give just this play ( which Gervinus thinks preaches a serious moral ) a com- pletely senseless and unmeaning title ...
... gives the play its pecu- liar stamp , we shall again find that the title furnishes us with some clue . For the title ... give just this play ( which Gervinus thinks preaches a serious moral ) a com- pletely senseless and unmeaning title ...
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... give way in what they do and leave undone . Nowhere does the representation treat of conscious plans , definite resolves , decided aims and objects ; nowhere do we find preconsidered , * Rosalynde : Euphues ' Golden Legacy , etc. , 1590 ...
... give way in what they do and leave undone . Nowhere does the representation treat of conscious plans , definite resolves , decided aims and objects ; nowhere do we find preconsidered , * Rosalynde : Euphues ' Golden Legacy , etc. , 1590 ...
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... give the play a humorous character , the gay appearance of ' as you like it , ' he could not solve the contrast except by allow- ing selfish injustice and violent arbitrariness to become untrue to themselves , and to turn into their ...
... give the play a humorous character , the gay appearance of ' as you like it , ' he could not solve the contrast except by allow- ing selfish injustice and violent arbitrariness to become untrue to themselves , and to turn into their ...
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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 423 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
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, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 125 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 334 - 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 420 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 435 - 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 158 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
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Page 435 - 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.