Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented in Shakespeare's Plays (crowned by the French Academy).C. Kegan Paul & Company, 1880 - 483 Seiten |
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... true , that a poet is not an historian , and that his mission is other than to write an historical work . Poetic or ideal truth is of a different nature and of a higher order than historical fact . We shall see more than once , further ...
... true , that a poet is not an historian , and that his mission is other than to write an historical work . Poetic or ideal truth is of a different nature and of a higher order than historical fact . We shall see more than once , further ...
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... true Romans on the stage , and ended by writing two tragedies which can only be understood and relished by men of learning , and are quite without interest for the general public . But note the miracle performed by genius - while Ben ...
... true Romans on the stage , and ended by writing two tragedies which can only be understood and relished by men of learning , and are quite without interest for the general public . But note the miracle performed by genius - while Ben ...
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... true of every great genius by virtue of the unfathomable depths of his thought , but also from circumstances peculiar to his case . Though born in a period on which the full light of history is shed , scarcely anything is known either ...
... true of every great genius by virtue of the unfathomable depths of his thought , but also from circumstances peculiar to his case . Though born in a period on which the full light of history is shed , scarcely anything is known either ...
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... true text , and can only serve as the basis for conjecture . A glance may here be thrown over some of the latest con- jectures concerning what are called his doubtful plays , for besides numerous doubtful passages , there are whole ...
... true text , and can only serve as the basis for conjecture . A glance may here be thrown over some of the latest con- jectures concerning what are called his doubtful plays , for besides numerous doubtful passages , there are whole ...
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... True . But the para- doxical idea of the new commentators is to consider Shakespeare a philosopher as much as a poet , and to exalt him as a worker upon the profoundest principles , fully aware of the depth of his own convictions . Yet ...
... True . But the para- doxical idea of the new commentators is to consider Shakespeare a philosopher as much as a poet , and to exalt him as a worker upon the profoundest principles , fully aware of the depth of his own convictions . Yet ...
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Seite 53 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had. meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 459 - 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 pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Seite 84 - There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls, But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Enter Musicians Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music.
Seite 328 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man !
Seite 456 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Seite 57 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Seite 311 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake ! His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, Give me some drink, Titinius, As a sick girl.
Seite 50 - Upon the back of that, comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While, in the meantime, two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Seite 307 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Seite 193 - Trojan legends were never held in higher honour than at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries.