Literary CriticismHoughton Mifflin, 1876 - 577 páginas |
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... poet , all the depths of philosophy ( at least , of any known and recognized philosophy ) would less avail to explain , speculatively , the principles which , in such a case , should guide him , than Shakspeare has explained by his ...
... poet , all the depths of philosophy ( at least , of any known and recognized philosophy ) would less avail to explain , speculatively , the principles which , in such a case , should guide him , than Shakspeare has explained by his ...
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... from that condition of ordinary breath- ing life which it was the constant effort of the Greek tragedy to escape ; and therefore it was that the Greek poet preferred the gloomy idea of Fate : not 12 THEORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY .
... from that condition of ordinary breath- ing life which it was the constant effort of the Greek tragedy to escape ; and therefore it was that the Greek poet preferred the gloomy idea of Fate : not 12 THEORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY .
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... poet who wanted only the situation , but would have repelled a poet who sought also for the complex features of a character . It is true that such remote and fabulous periods are visited at times , though not haunted , by the modern ...
... poet who wanted only the situation , but would have repelled a poet who sought also for the complex features of a character . It is true that such remote and fabulous periods are visited at times , though not haunted , by the modern ...
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... poet used simply that faint outline of character , in its gross distinctions of good and bad , which the situation itself implied . For example , the Creon of Thebes is pretty uniformly exhibited as tyrannical and cruel . But that was ...
... poet used simply that faint outline of character , in its gross distinctions of good and bad , which the situation itself implied . For example , the Creon of Thebes is pretty uniformly exhibited as tyrannical and cruel . But that was ...
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... poet ; partly because antiquity ennobled ; partly also because , by abstract- ing the individualities of a character , it left the his- toric figure in that neutral state which was most entirely passive to the moulding and determining ...
... poet ; partly because antiquity ennobled ; partly also because , by abstract- ing the individualities of a character , it left the his- toric figure in that neutral state which was most entirely passive to the moulding and determining ...
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Página 527 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Página 506 - The pleasure-house is dust : behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom ; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 421 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Página 459 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 538 - unsexed'; Macbeth has forgot that he was born of woman; both are conformed to the image of devils; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The...
Página 536 - ... exhibits human nature in its most abject and humiliating attitude. Such an attitude would little suit the purposes of the poet. What then must he do? He must throw the interest on the murderer. Our sympathy must be with him (of course I mean a sympathy of comprehension, a sympathy by which we enter into his feelings, and are made to understand them — not a sympathy of pity or approbation).
Página 533 - FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth : it was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account: the effect was — that it reflected back upon the...
Página 539 - The murderers and the murder must be insulated - cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs - locked up and sequestered in some deep recess : we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested - laid asleep tranced - racked into a dread armistice...
Página 537 - Duncan," and adequately to expound " the deep damnation of his taking off," this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature...
Página 351 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...