Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and Goethe, 2. köideChapman, brothers, 1876 - 554 pages |
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... present case set the whole in motion are merely chance , the uninten- tional encounter of persons and incidents , and the freaks , caprices and humours , the sentiments , feelings and emo- tions to which the various personages ...
... present case set the whole in motion are merely chance , the uninten- tional encounter of persons and incidents , and the freaks , caprices and humours , the sentiments , feelings and emo- tions to which the various personages ...
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... present guest and friend , King Polixenes of Bohemia . The integrity of a confidant , Camillo , whom Leontes intended to make the instrument of his revenge , enables Polixenes to escape from the designs made upon him . The Queen ...
... present guest and friend , King Polixenes of Bohemia . The integrity of a confidant , Camillo , whom Leontes intended to make the instrument of his revenge , enables Polixenes to escape from the designs made upon him . The Queen ...
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... present will be cleared off by a necessity which , even though equally dark , 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 ...
... present will be cleared off by a necessity which , even though equally dark , 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 ...
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... present itself to man only in its undimned transparency and perfect clearness , like a bright , cheerful summer's day , but that it is en- veloped in a mysterious , irremovable veil , and governed by a power that cannot always be ...
... present itself to man only in its undimned transparency and perfect clearness , like a bright , cheerful summer's day , but that it is en- veloped in a mysterious , irremovable veil , and governed by a power that cannot always be ...
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... present I shall content myself with drawing attention to the fact that , in con- sequence of the manner in which Shakspeare conceives and treats the Fantastic , the Wonderful , and what is like a fairy tale in character , the very ...
... present I shall content myself with drawing attention to the fact that , in con- sequence of the manner in which Shakspeare conceives and treats the Fantastic , the Wonderful , and what is like a fairy tale in character , the very ...
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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.