The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 345 pages |
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Page v
... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them town to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant and fustian ...
... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them town to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant and fustian ...
Page vi
... minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey ...
... minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words convey ...
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... mind - the largeness of senti- ment- the liberality of opinion , which the whole tenor of his works prove him to have possessed : his faults seem to have been the transient aberrations of a thoughtless moment , which reflection never ...
... mind - the largeness of senti- ment- the liberality of opinion , which the whole tenor of his works prove him to have possessed : his faults seem to have been the transient aberrations of a thoughtless moment , which reflection never ...
Page xliv
... boyish effort , full of talent and inexperience , which soon passed from the public mind , but not sooner than the author wished it to be forgotten ; which he had the good xliv . THE LIFE OF stole it from Ned, no doubt; do not ...
... boyish effort , full of talent and inexperience , which soon passed from the public mind , but not sooner than the author wished it to be forgotten ; which he had the good xliv . THE LIFE OF stole it from Ned, no doubt; do not ...
Page lv
... cheerfulness and serenity of his mind : he was ' verie good company , ' says Aubrey , ' and of a very ready , and pleasant , and smooth witt . ' In this , as Mr. Godwin has justly observed , he bore a striking WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . lv .
... cheerfulness and serenity of his mind : he was ' verie good company , ' says Aubrey , ' and of a very ready , and pleasant , and smooth witt . ' In this , as Mr. Godwin has justly observed , he bore a striking WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . lv .
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