Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of FluellenSamuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1812 - 448 Seiten |
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... thine eyes to the firma- ment , " said a countryman to a philosopher , " number the stars , compute their distances , and explain their motions . Observe the diversity of seasons , and the confusion oc- casioned by INTRODUCTION . 9.
... thine eyes to the firma- ment , " said a countryman to a philosopher , " number the stars , compute their distances , and explain their motions . Observe the diversity of seasons , and the confusion oc- casioned by INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... observe every sentiment it excites . You cannot . While the passion prevails , you have no leisure for speculation ; and be assured it has suffered abatement , if you have time to philosophize . But you proceed by recollection . Still ...
... observe every sentiment it excites . You cannot . While the passion prevails , you have no leisure for speculation ; and be assured it has suffered abatement , if you have time to philosophize . But you proceed by recollection . Still ...
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... its operations in the conduct and deportment of others : we must mingle in society , and observe the manners and characters of mankind , ac- cording as casual or unexpected incidents may furnish an opportunity 16 INTRODUCTION .
... its operations in the conduct and deportment of others : we must mingle in society , and observe the manners and characters of mankind , ac- cording as casual or unexpected incidents may furnish an opportunity 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... observe , that we are much more subject to delusions of this kind , when dramatic per- formances are exhibited on the stage , and have their effect supported by the scenery , by the dresses of the players , and by their action . If this ...
... observe , that we are much more subject to delusions of this kind , when dramatic per- formances are exhibited on the stage , and have their effect supported by the scenery , by the dresses of the players , and by their action . If this ...
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... observe , in confirma- tion of this remark , that children are often prone to soliloquy : and so are men of lively passions . In children , the association is vigorous and entire : in men of lively pas- sions , habits are more tenacious ...
... observe , in confirma- tion of this remark , that children are often prone to soliloquy : and so are men of lively passions . In children , the association is vigorous and entire : in men of lively pas- sions , habits are more tenacious ...
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affection agitated agreeable Alcibiades ambition amiable amusement appear appetites arise attention become beneficence cerning character circumstances Claudius conduct consequence Cordelia delight delineation desire dexterity disappointment discernment display dispositions dramatic emotion endeavours esteem excellent excite exhibited expresses exquisite external Falstaff fancy father fear feelings flattered Fluellen give gratified guilt Hamlet hath heart Hecuba honour human nature humour Iachimo illustrated imagination imitation Imogen indignation indulgence influence ingra inhuman invention Jaques kind King King Lear Laertes Lear less Lord Macbeth mankind manner melancholy ment merit mind misanthropy moral never object observe occasion Olorus opinion pain passion persons pleasure poet poetical justice possess Prince principles proceed propriety qualities racter reflection renders representation resentment Richard scene seems sense sensibility sentiments Shakespeare shew sion Sir John Falstaff situation sorrow soul spirit suffers temper thee things thou Timon Timon of Athens tion tragedy tural uncon violent virtue
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Seite 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Seite 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Seite 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Seite 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Seite 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Seite 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Seite 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Seite 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Seite 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.