Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of Fluellen |
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... emotions of the heart . We are alike accessible to love or hatred , confidence or suspicion , exultation or despondency . These passions and dispositions are often blended together , or succeed each other , with a ve- locity which we ...
... emotions of the heart . We are alike accessible to love or hatred , confidence or suspicion , exultation or despondency . These passions and dispositions are often blended together , or succeed each other , with a ve- locity which we ...
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... emotions felt by him at some former period ; or he must seize their impression , and mark their operations at the very moment they are accidentally excited . Thus , with other obvious disadvantages , he will often lose the opportunity ...
... emotions felt by him at some former period ; or he must seize their impression , and mark their operations at the very moment they are accidentally excited . Thus , with other obvious disadvantages , he will often lose the opportunity ...
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... emotions which we are unable easily to con- ceive . Neither can we consider human characters and affections as altogether in- different to us . They are not mere objects of curiosity ; they excite love or hatred , ap- probation or ...
... emotions which we are unable easily to con- ceive . Neither can we consider human characters and affections as altogether in- different to us . They are not mere objects of curiosity ; they excite love or hatred , ap- probation or ...
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... emotions as- cribed to them . Compare a soliloquy of Hamlet , with one of the descriptions of Rodrigue in the Cid . Nothing can be more natural in the circumstances and with the temper of Hamlet , than the following re- flections : - O ...
... emotions as- cribed to them . Compare a soliloquy of Hamlet , with one of the descriptions of Rodrigue in the Cid . Nothing can be more natural in the circumstances and with the temper of Hamlet , than the following re- flections : - O ...
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... emotions that interest us in the happiness and misery of others , and yield us the highest pleasure at theatrical enter- tainments , are , by the wise and beneficial institutions of nature , exceedingly apt to be excited ; so apt , that ...
... emotions that interest us in the happiness and misery of others , and yield us the highest pleasure at theatrical enter- tainments , are , by the wise and beneficial institutions of nature , exceedingly apt to be excited ; so apt , that ...
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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.