Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of Fluellen |
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... abilities of this kind than Euripides . His whole heart and soul seem torn and agitated by the force of the passion he imitates . He ceases to be Euripides ; he is Medea ; he is Orestes . Shakespeare , however , is most eminently ...
... abilities of this kind than Euripides . His whole heart and soul seem torn and agitated by the force of the passion he imitates . He ceases to be Euripides ; he is Medea ; he is Orestes . Shakespeare , however , is most eminently ...
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... abilities he is afraid , thinks of honouring him by a claim of consanguinity , and is re- plied to with symptoms of contempt and aversion . Yet Hamlet delivers himself am- biguously , inclined to vent his displeasure , but unwilling to ...
... abilities he is afraid , thinks of honouring him by a claim of consanguinity , and is re- plied to with symptoms of contempt and aversion . Yet Hamlet delivers himself am- biguously , inclined to vent his displeasure , but unwilling to ...
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... abilities , you set no limits to his capacity , and ima- gining him wiser and more ingenious than he really is , you are almost led to revere him . To explain the cause of these appear- ances is difficult : yet a conjecture may be ...
... abilities , you set no limits to his capacity , and ima- gining him wiser and more ingenious than he really is , you are almost led to revere him . To explain the cause of these appear- ances is difficult : yet a conjecture may be ...
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... abilities , we cannot define with accuracy the precise boundaries of his genius ; our imagination gives him energies additional to those he exhibits ; and it is agreeable to our opinion of his endow- ments , and consonant to our present ...
... abilities , we cannot define with accuracy the precise boundaries of his genius ; our imagination gives him energies additional to those he exhibits ; and it is agreeable to our opinion of his endow- ments , and consonant to our present ...
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... abilities , exceedingly cultivated and improved , with manners the most ele- gant and becoming , with the utmost recti- tude of intention , and the most active zeal in the exercise of every duty , he is hated , per- secuted , and ...
... abilities , exceedingly cultivated and improved , with manners the most ele- gant and becoming , with the utmost recti- tude of intention , and the most active zeal in the exercise of every duty , he is hated , per- secuted , and ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.