An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - 206 páginas |
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... Italy— soft , silent , calm , and lonely . The moon is up , and his interesting and most lovely heroine is flung on a couch watching her course among her attending stars , but her thoughts far away on " the God of her Idolatry . " How ...
... Italy— soft , silent , calm , and lonely . The moon is up , and his interesting and most lovely heroine is flung on a couch watching her course among her attending stars , but her thoughts far away on " the God of her Idolatry . " How ...
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... Italian drama . One would almost think that Shakespeare sat amid the " starry skies and cloudless climes " of the calm and classic Italy . That he felt the warm inspiration and the voluptuous dreaming of a poet born in the amorous and ...
... Italian drama . One would almost think that Shakespeare sat amid the " starry skies and cloudless climes " of the calm and classic Italy . That he felt the warm inspiration and the voluptuous dreaming of a poet born in the amorous and ...
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... Italian painting . ' Tis all sunny hues and warm dyes . Fervour , and fondness , and most magical sweetness flow and irradiate from his pen while it is pourtraying the scenes and characters of this highly wrought drama . * The music ...
... Italian painting . ' Tis all sunny hues and warm dyes . Fervour , and fondness , and most magical sweetness flow and irradiate from his pen while it is pourtraying the scenes and characters of this highly wrought drama . * The music ...
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... again ! I challenge the best dramatic writers of either Italy , Germany , or England , to produce lines which shall surpass these for truth and nature . I 60 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . have evinced no acquaintance with human nature. ...
... again ! I challenge the best dramatic writers of either Italy , Germany , or England , to produce lines which shall surpass these for truth and nature . I 60 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . have evinced no acquaintance with human nature. ...
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... Italian novelists . But this affords no conviction that he was versed in the originals ; for , from the most accurate in- vestigation , it appears that translations alone were the medium through which he had recourse to them ; and , as ...
... Italian novelists . But this affords no conviction that he was versed in the originals ; for , from the most accurate in- vestigation , it appears that translations alone were the medium through which he had recourse to them ; and , as ...
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Página 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Página 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Página 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Página 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Página 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Página 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Página 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Página 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.