Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and Goethe, 2. köideChapman, brothers, 1876 - 554 pages |
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... tion and 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 ...
... tion and 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 ...
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... tion of lions and serpents into the mountainous scenery of Europe which gives us a gentle intimation that we are standing upon the ideal soil of poetic fancy . And still more emphatically is this expressed in the development and the ...
... tion of lions and serpents into the mountainous scenery of Europe which gives us a gentle intimation that we are standing upon the ideal soil of poetic fancy . And still more emphatically is this expressed in the development and the ...
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... tion of the madness , which , as I think , is much less forced than many other incidents . For , as under the presupposed forms of life , mysticism , the love of the marvellous and superstition are always found in full bloom , such ...
... tion of the madness , which , as I think , is much less forced than many other incidents . For , as under the presupposed forms of life , mysticism , the love of the marvellous and superstition are always found in full bloom , such ...
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... tion of love - this is not the actual theme of the poem . On the contrary , the action exhibits the serious side of the passion of love only so as to parody this seriousness by representing love itself as a mere plaything , a mere ...
... tion of love - this is not the actual theme of the poem . On the contrary , the action exhibits the serious side of the passion of love only so as to parody this seriousness by representing love itself as a mere plaything , a mere ...
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... tion of character are left almost wholly out of consideration . 2. TAMING OF THE SHREW . I connect Much Ado About Nothing ' with another comedy of intrigue apparently very different in character , because , in my opinion ...
... tion of character are left almost wholly out of consideration . 2. TAMING OF THE SHREW . I connect Much Ado About Nothing ' with another comedy of intrigue apparently very different in character , because , in my opinion ...
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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.