An Essay on the Play of The Tempest: With Remarks on the Superstitions of the Middle Ages; Some Original Observations on the Character of Caliban; with Various Reflections on the Writings and Genius of Shakspere. Read Before the Shakspere Club, 6th September, 1839J. Fellowes, 1840 - 58 Seiten |
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... delineating ; he has through- out the play , drawn the daughter of Prospero , in the possession of all those qualities , mingled with sweet affection , which give to her sex , that benign and potent influence , of subduing and ...
... delineating ; he has through- out the play , drawn the daughter of Prospero , in the possession of all those qualities , mingled with sweet affection , which give to her sex , that benign and potent influence , of subduing and ...
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... delineate , the rude and uncultivated savage , in a style , which arouses our sympathies , in behalf of those , whose destiny , it has never been , to enjoy the advantages of civilization . Caliban , amidst the rudeness of his nature ...
... delineate , the rude and uncultivated savage , in a style , which arouses our sympathies , in behalf of those , whose destiny , it has never been , to enjoy the advantages of civilization . Caliban , amidst the rudeness of his nature ...
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... delineation of character , where dig- nity of language , and purity of feeling , are re- quired , no writer has ever surpassed Shakspere : the beauty of his diction , the elegance of his style , in unison , with the sublimity of his ...
... delineation of character , where dig- nity of language , and purity of feeling , are re- quired , no writer has ever surpassed Shakspere : the beauty of his diction , the elegance of his style , in unison , with the sublimity of his ...
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... delineations of life , are congenial to nature ; he describes the events of human action , agreeable to the history , from which he forms his dramas , and , therefore , when a virtuous character is brought forward , we uni- versally ...
... delineations of life , are congenial to nature ; he describes the events of human action , agreeable to the history , from which he forms his dramas , and , therefore , when a virtuous character is brought forward , we uni- versally ...
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... delineate those characters , which excite the lighter feelings of merriment and humour ; where every sentence is a laugh , " to clapping theatres , and shouting crowds , " to make , as the poet , Blair , has it , -E'en thick lipp'd ...
... delineate those characters , which excite the lighter feelings of merriment and humour ; where every sentence is a laugh , " to clapping theatres , and shouting crowds , " to make , as the poet , Blair , has it , -E'en thick lipp'd ...
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Seite 39 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air...
Seite 23 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Seite 17 - em. Caliban. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Seite 22 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and...
Seite 45 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art/ Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Seite 35 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 1 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Seite 49 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Seite 4 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the souL...
Seite 53 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...