Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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... poet occupied in the pieces of the second period with those reflections upon the contrast of outward show and inward reality , of the actual and the conventional worth of things , a theme capable of the most manifold poetical ...
... poet occupied in the pieces of the second period with those reflections upon the contrast of outward show and inward reality , of the actual and the conventional worth of things , a theme capable of the most manifold poetical ...
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... poet . Hamlet is the only piece of this later period , in which one might conjecture a pathological interest on the part of the poet ; we might perceive , that he had treated the hero as a counterpart to Prince Henry , and in both ...
... poet . Hamlet is the only piece of this later period , in which one might conjecture a pathological interest on the part of the poet ; we might perceive , that he had treated the hero as a counterpart to Prince Henry , and in both ...
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... poetic punish- ment which meets this trade in Pompey , is not the removal of the person , but the investing it with ... poet turns so decidedly against the absolute execution of the law , and the literal meaning of its letter . Whilst he ...
... poetic punish- ment which meets this trade in Pompey , is not the removal of the person , but the investing it with ... poet turns so decidedly against the absolute execution of the law , and the literal meaning of its letter . Whilst he ...
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... poet had not written Measure for Measure on account of its painful plot . The question therefore is only , whether the poet has done all that he could , having once undertaken the theme , to avoid what is needlessly terrible , and to ...
... poet had not written Measure for Measure on account of its painful plot . The question therefore is only , whether the poet has done all that he could , having once undertaken the theme , to avoid what is needlessly terrible , and to ...
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... poet as a pedantic preacher of morality , while in Measure for Measure he appears to us so liberal in sentiment , and in Hamlet so refined and sympathe- tic ? The point then is , that in the examination of the inner truth of this poetic ...
... poet as a pedantic preacher of morality , while in Measure for Measure he appears to us so liberal in sentiment , and in Hamlet so refined and sympathe- tic ? The point then is , that in the examination of the inner truth of this poetic ...
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Page 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 64 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Page 295 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Page 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Page 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 328 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.