Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. DrakeNathan Drake 1828 |
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... three which have any pretensions to consideration , and of these the bust at Stratford seems entitled to the Poetaster , Act . v . Scene 1st . foremost place . On this interesting relique , which had 52 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
... three which have any pretensions to consideration , and of these the bust at Stratford seems entitled to the Poetaster , Act . v . Scene 1st . foremost place . On this interesting relique , which had 52 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
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... scene cannot be an exact copy of nature , but only an imitation . If we can believe ourselves at Thebes in one act , we can believe ourselves at Athens in the next . There seems to be no just boundary but what the feelings prescribe ...
... scene cannot be an exact copy of nature , but only an imitation . If we can believe ourselves at Thebes in one act , we can believe ourselves at Athens in the next . There seems to be no just boundary but what the feelings prescribe ...
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... scene and scene ; for where there were no acts or scenes , it was impossible rigidly to observe its laws . To overcome these difficulties , the judg- ment and great genius of the ancients supplied music , and with the charms of their ...
... scene and scene ; for where there were no acts or scenes , it was impossible rigidly to observe its laws . To overcome these difficulties , the judg- ment and great genius of the ancients supplied music , and with the charms of their ...
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... change the scene from Windsor to London , than from London to Pekin ; it would look more like reality , if a messenger , who went and returned in the course of the play , told us of having UNIVERSALITY OF HIS GENIUS , & c . 89.
... change the scene from Windsor to London , than from London to Pekin ; it would look more like reality , if a messenger , who went and returned in the course of the play , told us of having UNIVERSALITY OF HIS GENIUS , & c . 89.
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... scene of the cave which blends unreality with real life - the prepa- ration and circumstances of midnight murder- the superhuman calmness of guilt , in its elated strength , in a woman's soul - and the dreaminess of mind which is ...
... scene of the cave which blends unreality with real life - the prepa- ration and circumstances of midnight murder- the superhuman calmness of guilt , in its elated strength , in a woman's soul - and the dreaminess of mind which is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration ancient appears Banquo bard beauty Ben Jonson Caliban character comedy comic criticism death delight delineation Desdemona drama dramatic poet edition effect England English Eschylus excellence exhibited expression Falstaff fancy feel genius of Shakspeare ghost give Greek Hamlet heart Henry Homer human humour Iago imagination impression Johnson JOSEPH WARTON Julius Cæsar king KING LEAR Lady Macbeth language Lear less literature Macbeth Malone manner mind moral murder nature never noble object observed Ophelia Othello passion perfect perhaps pieces pity play poet poetical poetry portraits possess produced racter reader remarkable Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet scarcely scene Schlegel seems Shak Shakspeare's Sophocles soul speare spectators spirit stage Steevens striking style sublime taste theatre thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tragic Troilus and Cressida truth unity Voltaire whilst whole writers written
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Página 211 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 319 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Página 306 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 352 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Página 472 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 305 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 181 - Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Página 416 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Página 182 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.