Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of FluellenSamuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1812 - 448 páginas |
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... give us pleasure , whether it be described by the agent or the spectator , yet , to those who would apply the inventions of the poet to the uses of philosophical in- vestigation , it is far from being of equal utility with a passion ...
... give us pleasure , whether it be described by the agent or the spectator , yet , to those who would apply the inventions of the poet to the uses of philosophical in- vestigation , it is far from being of equal utility with a passion ...
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... give a train to our thoughts , these , in return , nourish and promote the passion . If any object appears to us more striking and excellent than usual , it com- municates a stronger impulse , and excites a keener and more vehement ...
... give a train to our thoughts , these , in return , nourish and promote the passion . If any object appears to us more striking and excellent than usual , it com- municates a stronger impulse , and excites a keener and more vehement ...
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... gives him energies additional to those he exhibits ; and it is agreeable to our opinion of his endow- ments , and consonant to our present temper , to believe him more eminent than he really is . We are apt to judge in the same man- ner ...
... gives him energies additional to those he exhibits ; and it is agreeable to our opinion of his endow- ments , and consonant to our present temper , to believe him more eminent than he really is . We are apt to judge in the same man- ner ...
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... give abundant colour . Hence , with a heart full of agony , prepared for the evidence , and willing to receive it , he exclaims , All is not well- I doubt some foul play . Had Hamlet been more indifferent in his regard to propriety and ...
... give abundant colour . Hence , with a heart full of agony , prepared for the evidence , and willing to receive it , he exclaims , All is not well- I doubt some foul play . Had Hamlet been more indifferent in his regard to propriety and ...
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... gives undoubted evidence . I lov'd Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up my sum . At any rate , Hamlet's treatment of Ophe lia , who however had " repelled his letters , and denied his ...
... gives undoubted evidence . I lov'd Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up my sum . At any rate , Hamlet's treatment of Ophe lia , who however had " repelled his letters , and denied his ...
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affection agitated agreeable Alcibiades ambition amiable amusement appear appetites arise attention become beneficence cerning character circumstances Claudius conduct consequence Cordelia delight delineation desire dexterity disappointment discernment display dispositions dramatic emotion endeavours esteem excellent excite exhibited expresses exquisite external Falstaff fancy father fear feelings flattered Fluellen give gratified guilt Hamlet hath heart Hecuba honour human nature humour Iachimo illustrated imagination imitation Imogen indignation indulgence influence ingra inhuman invention Jaques kind King King Lear Laertes Lear less Lord Macbeth mankind manner melancholy ment merit mind misanthropy moral never object observe occasion Olorus opinion pain passion persons pleasure poet poetical justice possess Prince principles proceed propriety qualities racter reflection renders representation resentment Richard scene seems sense sensibility sentiments Shakespeare shew sion Sir John Falstaff situation sorrow soul spirit suffers temper thee things thou Timon Timon of Athens tion tragedy tural uncon violent virtue
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Página 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Página 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Página 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Página 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Página 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Página 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Página 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.