Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and Goethe, 2. köideChapman, brothers, 1876 - 554 pages |
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... Falstaff -who makes a complete caricature of the character of Count Rousillon , of his independent and imperious nature , his martial courage and thirst for action , and who holds up the vanity of empty pride in its entire nakedness ...
... Falstaff -who makes a complete caricature of the character of Count Rousillon , of his independent and imperious nature , his martial courage and thirst for action , and who holds up the vanity of empty pride in its entire nakedness ...
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... Falstaff whom she had learned to know and esteem in ' Henry IV .'- repre- sented in love . Shakspeare is said to have thereupon written the piece in a fortnight , which in my opinion is as little unlikely as the above wish of the Queen ...
... Falstaff whom she had learned to know and esteem in ' Henry IV .'- repre- sented in love . Shakspeare is said to have thereupon written the piece in a fortnight , which in my opinion is as little unlikely as the above wish of the Queen ...
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... Falstaff's unlucky courtships ( which are always interrupted in the same manner ) ; in short , would account for the want of the thorough working - out of the details . On the other hand , Falstaff's individuality is , throughout the ...
... Falstaff's unlucky courtships ( which are always interrupted in the same manner ) ; in short , would account for the want of the thorough working - out of the details . On the other hand , Falstaff's individuality is , throughout the ...
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... Falstaff's character that can decide the question as to whether , and how far , this single figure is justified in being the bearer of a whole dramatic poem . And he deserves this examination , if only from the fact that Shakspeare has ...
... Falstaff's character that can decide the question as to whether , and how far , this single figure is justified in being the bearer of a whole dramatic poem . And he deserves this examination , if only from the fact that Shakspeare has ...
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... Falstaff's indi- viduality . But such a delineation does not throw suffi- cient light upon the artistic significance of a character who is made the bearer of a whole work of art , does not answer the question as to his being poetically ...
... Falstaff's indi- viduality . But such a delineation does not throw suffi- cient light upon the artistic significance of a character who is made the bearer of a whole work of art , does not answer the question as to his being poetically ...
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Page 415 - 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 326 - 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 117 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 412 - 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 149 - 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 427 - 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 427 - 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 428 - His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws; nothing more is necessary to all the praise which they expect than that the changes of action be so prepared as to be understood, that the incidents be various and affecting, and the characters consistent, natural, and distinct. No other unity is intended, and therefore none is to be sought.
Page 150 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Page 150 - 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.