Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 Seiten |
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... passage from Schlegel , because , in his opinion , no English critic had shown like enthusiasm or philosophical acuteness . We cannot regret the delusion if we owe to it the Characters of Shakespeare's Plays , but his patriotic task ...
... passage from Schlegel , because , in his opinion , no English critic had shown like enthusiasm or philosophical acuteness . We cannot regret the delusion if we owe to it the Characters of Shakespeare's Plays , but his patriotic task ...
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... passage is a satire on Garrick and a gibe at Drury Lane : " The public go only to be amused , and find themselves happy when they can enjoy a pantomime under the sanction of Jonson's or Shakespeare's name . " But , whatever was done ...
... passage is a satire on Garrick and a gibe at Drury Lane : " The public go only to be amused , and find themselves happy when they can enjoy a pantomime under the sanction of Jonson's or Shakespeare's name . " But , whatever was done ...
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... passage of the Preface he says with definiteness , inconsistent with his other state- ments , that Shakespeare was " without assistance or advice from the learned , as without the advantage of education or acquaintance among them ...
... passage of the Preface he says with definiteness , inconsistent with his other state- ments , that Shakespeare was " without assistance or advice from the learned , as without the advantage of education or acquaintance among them ...
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... passage was omitted in the second edition , perhaps because it was inconsistent with a less decided utterance elsewhere in the Preface , but more probably because it had been supplied by Warburton . In his earlier days , before he had ...
... passage was omitted in the second edition , perhaps because it was inconsistent with a less decided utterance elsewhere in the Preface , but more probably because it had been supplied by Warburton . In his earlier days , before he had ...
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... passage in the Notes on Shakespeare , where Grey argues from Gloucester's words in Richard III . , " Go you before and I will follow you , " that Shakespeare knew , and was indebted to , Terence's Andria . About the same time Peter ...
... passage in the Notes on Shakespeare , where Grey argues from Gloucester's words in Richard III . , " Go you before and I will follow you , " that Shakespeare knew , and was indebted to , Terence's Andria . About the same time Peter ...
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Seite 103 - This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 7 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Seite lxii - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Seite 110 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Seite 103 - Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world...
Seite 101 - ... always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Seite 121 - perhaps we are not to look for his beginning, like those of other writers, in his least perfect works ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did that for aught I know," says he, " the performances of his youth, as they were the most vigorous, were the best.
Seite 106 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Seite 109 - ... while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur, and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it. Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the V/V line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures.
Seite 112 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.