An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - 206 Seiten |
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... delight to me . Thus would I endea- vour to do away the idea that I am wrong in speaking on a subject , which has been so often and so critically passed over . It is yet though inexhausted . It is a path and a region of sweets . Flowers ...
... delight to me . Thus would I endea- vour to do away the idea that I am wrong in speaking on a subject , which has been so often and so critically passed over . It is yet though inexhausted . It is a path and a region of sweets . Flowers ...
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... delight , with which she catches the phial from the Friar , the contents of which are to induce the drowsiness which afterwards ... delightful 66 Romeo and Juliet 22 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . I think all this excessively sweet-pre-emi- ...
... delight , with which she catches the phial from the Friar , the contents of which are to induce the drowsiness which afterwards ... delightful 66 Romeo and Juliet 22 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . I think all this excessively sweet-pre-emi- ...
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... delightful 66 Romeo and Juliet . " ' Tis nothing but love , and warmth , and imagination , and voluptuous attachment from beginning to end . All the picture is sketched in Italian painting . ' Tis all sunny hues and warm dyes . Fervour ...
... delightful 66 Romeo and Juliet . " ' Tis nothing but love , and warmth , and imagination , and voluptuous attachment from beginning to end . All the picture is sketched in Italian painting . ' Tis all sunny hues and warm dyes . Fervour ...
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... delight of the madwoman - and she gives fennel to the king- rue to the queen - and rue to herself ( correctly , ) and then she says that she would give them some violets , but ( mark the exquisite turn ) They wither'd all when my father ...
... delight of the madwoman - and she gives fennel to the king- rue to the queen - and rue to herself ( correctly , ) and then she says that she would give them some violets , but ( mark the exquisite turn ) They wither'd all when my father ...
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... , my Lord , With almost all the holy vows of heaven . These are delightful touches from the pencil of the master . There are two things which I have 66 here to remark . When she finds that Polonius ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . 55.
... , my Lord , With almost all the holy vows of heaven . These are delightful touches from the pencil of the master . There are two things which I have 66 here to remark . When she finds that Polonius ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . 55.
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Seite 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Seite 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Seite 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Seite 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Seite 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Seite 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Seite 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Seite 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Seite 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.