Shakespeare : His Life, Art, and Characters: With an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England, Band 1Ginn brothers, 1902 |
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... regard , for instance , to Lady Macbeth's pangs of guilt ? Shakespeare's prime characteristic was , that he knew the truth of Nature in all such things without the help of per- sonal experience . Mr. White presumes , moreover , that ...
... regard , for instance , to Lady Macbeth's pangs of guilt ? Shakespeare's prime characteristic was , that he knew the truth of Nature in all such things without the help of per- sonal experience . Mr. White presumes , moreover , that ...
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... regard for his intellectual gifts ; none drew forth more or stronger tributes of applause . Kings , princes , lords , gentlemen , and , what is probably still better , common people , all united in paying homage to his transcendent ...
... regard for his intellectual gifts ; none drew forth more or stronger tributes of applause . Kings , princes , lords , gentlemen , and , what is probably still better , common people , all united in paying homage to his transcendent ...
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... regard was paid to the rules of natural probability ; for , as the operation of supernatural power was assumed , this was held a sufficient ground or principle of credibility in itself . Hence , indeed , the name Marvels , Miracles , or ...
... regard was paid to the rules of natural probability ; for , as the operation of supernatural power was assumed , this was held a sufficient ground or principle of credibility in itself . Hence , indeed , the name Marvels , Miracles , or ...
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... most sacred doctrines and objects . " So that the state of mind from which and for which those old plays were produced goes far to explain and justify what we are apt to regard as a shocking contradiction 68 GROWTH OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND .
... most sacred doctrines and objects . " So that the state of mind from which and for which those old plays were produced goes far to explain and justify what we are apt to regard as a shocking contradiction 68 GROWTH OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND .
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... regard as a shocking contradiction be- tween the subject - matter and the treatment . The truth is , such religious farces , with all their coarse trumperies and comicalities and sensuous extravagances , were in perfect keeping with the ...
... regard as a shocking contradiction be- tween the subject - matter and the treatment . The truth is , such religious farces , with all their coarse trumperies and comicalities and sensuous extravagances , were in perfect keeping with the ...
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action appears beauty Ben Jonson better called character charm Christian comedy comic course critics delineation Devil Drama effect English Falstaff fancy father faults feel Francis Meres genius grace hand hath heart hero honour human humour inspiration instance John Shakespeare King Henry King Lear less live Lord Love's Labour's Lost Malvolio matter means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice merry mind Miracle-Plays moral nature ness never noble original Pandosto passage passion perhaps persons piece play Poet Poet's poetry Prince purpose reason scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare shows Shylock sort soul speak speech spirit stage stand Stratford strong style sure sweet tale taste tells thing Thomas Lodge thou thought tion touch true truth Twelfth Night virtue whole wife William Shakespeare Winter's Tale withal words workmanship writing written
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Seite 39 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Seite 199 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Seite 360 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Seite 227 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Seite 48 - 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...
Seite 260 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.
Seite 202 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Seite 200 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows.
Seite 227 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 469 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so, give alms ; Pray, so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that : move still, still so, And own no other function.