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... carried the Drama at a bound so far beyond Dramatic Criticism that the appreciation of Shakespeare's plays was left to the unin- structed public , while the trained criticism that ought to have recognised the new departure was engaged ...
... carried the Drama at a bound so far beyond Dramatic Criticism that the appreciation of Shakespeare's plays was left to the unin- structed public , while the trained criticism that ought to have recognised the new departure was engaged ...
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... carried into a new sphere of great- ness , by the interpretation and unfolding of Shakespeare's greatness : not one critic has in recent years risen to eminence by attacking Shakespeare . criticism And the Shakespearean Drama is only ...
... carried into a new sphere of great- ness , by the interpretation and unfolding of Shakespeare's greatness : not one critic has in recent years risen to eminence by attacking Shakespeare . criticism And the Shakespearean Drama is only ...
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... carried further to a single one of the Augustan writers , and ' Ciceronianism ' struggled hard against the freedom of style it chose to nickname ' Apu- leianism , ' till it fell itself before the laughter of Erasmus . It Criticism would ...
... carried further to a single one of the Augustan writers , and ' Ciceronianism ' struggled hard against the freedom of style it chose to nickname ' Apu- leianism , ' till it fell itself before the laughter of Erasmus . It Criticism would ...
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... carried with it the associations of its other sense ; and the mistake of metaphor has been sufficient to distort criticism until , as Goldsmith remarks , rules have become the greatest of all the misfortunes which have befallen the com ...
... carried with it the associations of its other sense ; and the mistake of metaphor has been sufficient to distort criticism until , as Goldsmith remarks , rules have become the greatest of all the misfortunes which have befallen the com ...
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... carried its conquering invention into develop- fresh regions before science , like settled government in the ment . wake of the pioneer , follows to explain the new effects by new principles . No doubt in name literary development is ...
... carried its conquering invention into develop- fresh regions before science , like settled government in the ment . wake of the pioneer , follows to explain the new effects by new principles . No doubt in name literary development is ...
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Page 153 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 212 - Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 48 - And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 163 - Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.
Page 60 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 150 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest...
Page 152 - 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 188 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark...
Page 144 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Page 138 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.