The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots and characters; and essays on the ancient theatres and theatrical usages |
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... originals are , how- ever , almost always excellent ; and so beauti- fully has he blended the separate actions , that they appear always to have formed one consistent whole . The characters of Shakspeare's absolute creation are as many ...
... originals are , how- ever , almost always excellent ; and so beauti- fully has he blended the separate actions , that they appear always to have formed one consistent whole . The characters of Shakspeare's absolute creation are as many ...
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... original , his intellect grasped his subject as a whole , and bending every faculty of his mind to the topic immediately before him , he never shrunk from the expression of his boldest thoughts . Sublimity is Marlow's perpetual aim ...
... original , his intellect grasped his subject as a whole , and bending every faculty of his mind to the topic immediately before him , he never shrunk from the expression of his boldest thoughts . Sublimity is Marlow's perpetual aim ...
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... original composition , authors of the highest talents did not disdain the employment . Decker , Rowley , Hayward , Jonson , and others , were frequently thus engaged in conferring value on the works of others , and to this ungrateful ...
... original composition , authors of the highest talents did not disdain the employment . Decker , Rowley , Hayward , Jonson , and others , were frequently thus engaged in conferring value on the works of others , and to this ungrateful ...
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... original dramatic author , and every attempt to connect with certainty so inte- resting a circumstance with any one of his nu- merous dramas has ended in disappointment . The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Comedy of Errors have been ...
... original dramatic author , and every attempt to connect with certainty so inte- resting a circumstance with any one of his nu- merous dramas has ended in disappointment . The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Comedy of Errors have been ...
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... original pieces were sold absolutely to the theatre : the gain upon them , therefore , is as- certainable with tolerable precision , as he neither derived advantage from their publication nor from their dedication to the opulent.t In ...
... original pieces were sold absolutely to the theatre : the gain upon them , therefore , is as- certainable with tolerable precision , as he neither derived advantage from their publication nor from their dedication to the opulent.t In ...
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Page 193 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night', Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 159 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 65 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 234 - In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Page 260 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Page 269 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 254 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 153 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...