Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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... imagination of Shakespeare in all its fervid and creative power ; for though , as mentioned in Meres's cata- logue , as having numerous scenes of continued rhyme , as be- ing barren in fable and defective in strength of character , it ...
... imagination of Shakespeare in all its fervid and creative power ; for though , as mentioned in Meres's cata- logue , as having numerous scenes of continued rhyme , as be- ing barren in fable and defective in strength of character , it ...
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... imagination which was fit only to be regarded as a dream by the persons whom the fairies illuded ; and that , as a whole , it comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " If we shadows have offended , Think but this ( and ...
... imagination which was fit only to be regarded as a dream by the persons whom the fairies illuded ; and that , as a whole , it comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " If we shadows have offended , Think but this ( and ...
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... imagination like the fresh breath of morning , before which the shades of night disappear . Pyramus and Thisbe is not unmeaningly chosen as the grotesque play within the play : it is exactly , like the pa- thetic part of the piece , a ...
... imagination like the fresh breath of morning , before which the shades of night disappear . Pyramus and Thisbe is not unmeaningly chosen as the grotesque play within the play : it is exactly , like the pa- thetic part of the piece , a ...
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... imagination as un- expected and as remote from each other , as those of the boldest lyric ; while it has also that highest perfection of the lyric art , the pervading unity of the poetic spirit - that con- tinued glow of excited thought ...
... imagination as un- expected and as remote from each other , as those of the boldest lyric ; while it has also that highest perfection of the lyric art , the pervading unity of the poetic spirit - that con- tinued glow of excited thought ...
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... imagination , whether it was to suit the stage or not , can we suppose the Poet himself to have been insensible of its worth ? Is a mother blind to the beauty of her own child ? No ! nor could Shakespeare be unconscious that posterity ...
... imagination , whether it was to suit the stage or not , can we suppose the Poet himself to have been insensible of its worth ? Is a mother blind to the beauty of her own child ? No ! nor could Shakespeare be unconscious that posterity ...
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