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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... written entirely for the sake of imparting information , without the devotion of any special care to the manner in which the informa- tion is given - is prized as one of the most precious forms of art . It is no easy task to translate a ...
... written entirely for the sake of imparting information , without the devotion of any special care to the manner in which the informa- tion is given - is prized as one of the most precious forms of art . It is no easy task to translate a ...
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... written in imitation of Greek and Latin writers , and to learn whether classical theories were expounded and commended by professors of the poetic art . An attempt must further be made , by means of such authentic information as we ...
... written in imitation of Greek and Latin writers , and to learn whether classical theories were expounded and commended by professors of the poetic art . An attempt must further be made , by means of such authentic information as we ...
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... writing a caricature of the Iliad . No poet was ever of a less revolutionary or aggressive spirit ; the basis of his humour is an unchanging serenity , and he remains floating in the pure regions of art high above all our lite- rary ...
... writing a caricature of the Iliad . No poet was ever of a less revolutionary or aggressive spirit ; the basis of his humour is an unchanging serenity , and he remains floating in the pure regions of art high above all our lite- rary ...
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... written before the famous year 1603 , which figures in the imagination of the too - inventive writer just quoted , as a sort of climacteric date in Shake- speare's history . There is no doubt that Shakespeare knew of Montaigne's works ...
... written before the famous year 1603 , which figures in the imagination of the too - inventive writer just quoted , as a sort of climacteric date in Shake- speare's history . There is no doubt that Shakespeare knew of Montaigne's works ...
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... 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 Jonson scrupulously preserves the outward ...
... 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 Jonson scrupulously preserves the outward ...
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Achilles admiration Æneas æsthetic Ajax anachronisms ancient antiquity Antony and Cleopatra appeared Athens beauty Ben Jonson Benoit de Sainte-More borrowed Brutus Calchas Cassius character classical classical antiquity Comedy of Errors Coriolanus criticism Dares death Dictys Diomedes doth dramatic English Epidamnus French genius give Greek heart Hector hero Homer honour Iliad imagination imitation Jonson Julius Cæsar King Latin learning literary literature live lovers Lucrece matter mediæval Menæchmus Middle Ages mind Molière moral nature never noble Octavius Pandarus passage passion Pericles personages philosopher Plautus Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry Priam Prince remarks Roman tragedies Rome says scene Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays Sidney sixteenth century soul speaking speare speare's spirit thee Thersites things thou thought Timon Timon of Athens tion translation Troilus and Cressida Trojan Trojan war trouvère Troy true truth Ulysses Virgil wife words writes
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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.